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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

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I don't read books, I write them.
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I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.
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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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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
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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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Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.
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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
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Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.
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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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Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.
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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.
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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
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