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

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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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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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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
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In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.
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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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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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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.
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For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.
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If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.
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Does anyone have any questions for my answers?
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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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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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