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" High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. "

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" Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. "

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

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

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

" I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes. "

" I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so. "

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

" Even a paranoid can have enemies. "

" 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. "

" While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. "

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

" The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. "

" Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction. "

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

" If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. "

" The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" We are all the President's men. "

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

" Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. "