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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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I do not criticize people who take a public stand on human rights issues. I express my respect for them. But some people are more influential without a public confrontation.
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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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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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The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.
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The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.
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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.
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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
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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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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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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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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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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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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
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