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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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The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.
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Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
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If you control the oil you control the country if you control food, you control the population.
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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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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
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