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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

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Power is the great aphrodisiac.
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If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.
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He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.
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I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
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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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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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In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.
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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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They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.
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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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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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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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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
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If you control the oil you control the country if you control food, you control the population.
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I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But she'd put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.
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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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