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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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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
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The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.
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The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.
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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
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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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I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.
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I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.
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The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
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I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.
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He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.
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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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Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.
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The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.
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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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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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