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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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" We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. "

Henry Kissinger

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. "

Henry Kissinger

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

" 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. "

" The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. "

" Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. "

" It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. "

" Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises. "

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

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

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

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

" I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy. "

" 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. "

" Even a paranoid can have enemies. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. "

" 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. "

" Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Henry Kissinger

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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. "

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