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In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.
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If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.
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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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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
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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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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
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I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China - making clear to China what the limits are of what America can accept, but also showing understanding for some of Chinese necessities. I thought he was moving towards the position that I have more or less advocated.
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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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Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
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I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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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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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
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American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.
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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
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With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.
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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.
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