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" America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War. "
Henry Kissinger
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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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" The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. "
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" The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. "
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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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" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "
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" Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment. "
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" 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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" I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans. "
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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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" Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. "
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" No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. "
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" To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. "
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" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. "
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" If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. "
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" The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. "
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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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