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Henry A. Kissinger
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
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University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
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Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.
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I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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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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In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.
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The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
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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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It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.
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Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
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History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
Henry A. Kissinger
I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
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