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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 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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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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We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.
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I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.
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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 peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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