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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
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Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.
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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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We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.
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I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.
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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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The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.
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In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
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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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I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.
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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.
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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 US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.
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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
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Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.
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