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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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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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Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
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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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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.
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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
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The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up at 4 A.M., they speak perfect English, the same as we do.
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Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.
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When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.
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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
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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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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
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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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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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To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
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