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A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.
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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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I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.
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University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
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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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This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
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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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Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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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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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.
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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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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Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.
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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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The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.
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Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.
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When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him what they were hiding from me, because I couldn't believe that the National policy would foresee such a level of destructiveness.
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