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The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.
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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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In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
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President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.
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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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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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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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What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.
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One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.
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I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.
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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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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
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Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.
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Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.
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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.
Henry A. Kissinger