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One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

Henry A. Kissinger

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Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.
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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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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.
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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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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
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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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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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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In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.
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Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.
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