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" A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood. "

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" It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other. "

" Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. "

" I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today. "

" Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. "

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" For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. "

" I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerilla-type wars, that the Obama Administration has hit more targets on a broader scale than the Nixon Administration ever did. "

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" If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent. "

" The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. "

" Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. "

" The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. "

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" Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts. "

" The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. "

" America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War. "

" The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened. "

" Even a paranoid can have enemies. "

" Power is the great aphrodisiac. "

" A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. "

" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. "

" I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions. "

" If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately. "

" In crises the most daring course is often safest. "

" The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. "

" If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. "

" You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. "

" The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples. "

" I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. "

" No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. "

" To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. "