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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.
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China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.
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Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.
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The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.
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I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.
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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
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I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.
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Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
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Power is the great aphrodisiac.
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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
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To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.
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You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.
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American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.
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We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.
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The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.
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