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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
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I don't read books, I write them.
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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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Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.
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Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but states like Iraq, like Iran, and to some extent Syria, having made it possible for some of these groups to operate. So it is a very difficult situation.
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
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U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation
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I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.
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The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line.
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We cannot give Russia veto over deployment of forces on NATO territory. But we have to understand their particular sensitivities, and, therefore, there should be a dialogue on these issues.
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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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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
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The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.
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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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Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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