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Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.
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Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
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Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.
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U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation
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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
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World population needs to be decreased by 50%
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This is awful. Do it again.
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Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.
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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
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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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What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.
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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.
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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 know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But she'd put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.
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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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In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.
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Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
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