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The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
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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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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.
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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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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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For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.
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The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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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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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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I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.
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The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.
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Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.
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