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You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.

Henry A. Kissinger

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90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.
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For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.
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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
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Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.
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Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided more often it is a crisis invited.
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I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.
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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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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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