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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. "

Henry Kissinger

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

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

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" 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. "

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" I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. "

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" The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective. "

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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. "

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" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "

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" Power is the great aphrodisiac. "

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" There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. "

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" Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. "

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

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

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" The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one. "

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" It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. "

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

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" There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire - this time under the Shia label. "

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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 absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. "

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" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. "

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" There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception. "

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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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" 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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" The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. "

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" The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. "

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