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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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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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Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
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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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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.
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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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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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The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.
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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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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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The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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Almost every peace process that has gone on between the Arab side and Israel, the United States has been somewhat isolated because most of the countries in the world, what they really want is to accept the Arab peace plan or so-called peace plan, which in its present form would lead to the destruction of Israel.
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
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