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

Henry A. Kissinger

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We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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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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The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.
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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.
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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 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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You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.
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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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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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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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This is awful. Do it again.
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Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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