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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.

Henry A. Kissinger

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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.
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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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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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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 American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
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I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.
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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
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Power is the great aphrodisiac.
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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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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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I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.
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With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.
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Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
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U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation
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I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.
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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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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
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