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Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

Henry A. Kissinger

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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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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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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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With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
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Realism in foreign policy is made up of a clear set of values, since difficult foreign policy decisions are often decided with the narrowest of majorities. Without any sense of what is right and wrong, one would drown in a flood of difficult and pragmatic decisions.
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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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Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.
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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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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?
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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.
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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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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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An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.
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