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" Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office. "

Henry Kissinger

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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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" 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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" Even a paranoid can have enemies. "

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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 nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. "

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

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

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" The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. "

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" 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. "

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" The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony. "

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

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" No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. "

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" We are all the President's men. "

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

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

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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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" We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it - namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants. "

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

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" 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. "

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