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

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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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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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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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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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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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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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I don't read books, I write them.
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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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I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.
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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But she'd put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.
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Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.
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Statesman create ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
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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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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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