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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 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. "

Henry Kissinger

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

" 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. "

" For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. "

" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. "

" The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened. "

" My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate. "

" 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. "

" If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately. "

" 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. "

" Power is the great aphrodisiac. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Henry Kissinger

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War

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

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

" 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. "

" The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. "

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

" Even a paranoid can have enemies. "

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

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

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

" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "

" 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. "