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I don't read books, I write them.

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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur free of the threat of terrorism.
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Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but states like Iraq, like Iran, and to some extent Syria, having made it possible for some of these groups to operate. So it is a very difficult situation.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
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