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

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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
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Power is the great aphrodisiac.
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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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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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Does anyone have any questions for my answers?
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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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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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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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In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
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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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[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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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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