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

Henry A. Kissinger

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In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because the states in Africa reflected the preferences of the colonial powers when they were established.
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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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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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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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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
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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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I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.
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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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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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