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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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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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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.
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Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided more often it is a crisis invited.
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Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
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A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.
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I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
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For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.
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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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With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.
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To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.
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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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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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