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I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

Henry A. Kissinger

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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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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
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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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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.
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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
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If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
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Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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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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History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
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China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.
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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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