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Henry A. Kissinger

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The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.
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If you mean by military victory an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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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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[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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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.
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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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I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.
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Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since the end of the Second World War.
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal
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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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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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