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Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.

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In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.
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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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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
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A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
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Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.
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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 can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.
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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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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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The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.
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I don't read books, I write them.
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Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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