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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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The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.
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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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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
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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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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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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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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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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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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
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