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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

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Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
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American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.
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[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.
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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
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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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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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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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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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In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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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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One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.
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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
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Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.
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What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
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I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.
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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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