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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

Henry A. Kissinger

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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
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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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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
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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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I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.
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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
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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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I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
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You're 18 points down [in the polls]... You might as well do what's right.
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The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.
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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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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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I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.
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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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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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