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

Henry A. Kissinger

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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
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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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We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
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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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I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.
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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
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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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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
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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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I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.
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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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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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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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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
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