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" I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so. "
Henry Kissinger
Trump
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" If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. "
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" Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. "
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" Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Through
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" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. "
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" The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples. "
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Security
" 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. "
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" The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. "
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" 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. "
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Intelligence
Service
" The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. "
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Essence
Richard Nixon
Loneliness
" America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War. "
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War
America
Five
" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. "
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Happen
Whatever
Must
" The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. "
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Army
Guerrilla
He
" 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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Eye
People
Look
" For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. "
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Never
Utopia
Blessed
" Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. "
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Thought
Funny
Only
" 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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America
Values
Reaction
" I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes. "
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Professor
Been
Think
" 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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Responsibility
Leadership
Leader
" I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private. "
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Done
Rights
Human Rights
" The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. "
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Policy
American
Believe
" 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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Yourself
You
End
" Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. "
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Consequences
Opinion
Responsible
" I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. "
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Mistake
Page
Myself
" The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. "
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Absence
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Clears