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They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.
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The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.
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I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.
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The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.
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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.
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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.
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China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.
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I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.
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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
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Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided more often it is a crisis invited.
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Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
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I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.
Henry A. Kissinger