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The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.
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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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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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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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China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.
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Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.
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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 American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
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I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had made, in part, a misjudgment about the nature of the communist system and the unity of the communist world and the degree to which the experience of Europe could be repeated in Vietnam.
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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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Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
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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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This is awful. Do it again.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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Realism in foreign policy means careful consideration of all aspects pertinent to the issue, before taking a decision. This is the only way you can move from where you are to someplace else.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
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I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and therefore, the leaders of the Arab world and Arafat should do their utmost to put an end to this and then the United States should do its utmost to produce a political solution.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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Many of the scientists have believed that their contribution to ending the nuclear race is not to let any new weapons to be developed.
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