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

Henry A. Kissinger

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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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[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.
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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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Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.
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If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.
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There is no realism without an element of idealism.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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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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If you mean by military victory an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.
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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.
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