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

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The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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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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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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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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If you control the oil you control the country if you control food, you control the population.
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Almost every peace process that has gone on between the Arab side and Israel, the United States has been somewhat isolated because most of the countries in the world, what they really want is to accept the Arab peace plan or so-called peace plan, which in its present form would lead to the destruction of Israel.
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[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.
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Let us fashion together a new world order.
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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 have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.
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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
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The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.
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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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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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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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Power is the great aphrodisiac.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.
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Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
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The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.
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