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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
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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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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
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Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.
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To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
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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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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.
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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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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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If you control the oil you control the country if you control food, you control the population.
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President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.
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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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The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.
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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
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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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We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.
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