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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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If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur free of the threat of terrorism.
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.
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I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But she'd put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.
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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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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
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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 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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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.
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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
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