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

Henry A. Kissinger

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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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The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.
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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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To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.
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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
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In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.
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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.
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At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.
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I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.
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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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With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.
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Baseball is the most intellectual game because most of the action goes on in your head.
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The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.
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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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Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.
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