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

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

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" Power is the great aphrodisiac. "

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" There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception. "

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

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

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" The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. "

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" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. "

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

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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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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. "

Henry Kissinger

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

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" I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private. "

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

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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. "

Henry Kissinger

" 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. "

Henry Kissinger

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

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" Even a paranoid can have enemies. "

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" The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. "

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

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" The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic contests between the regions and the sects will reappear, the Taliban will re-emerge, and a very complicated and maybe chaotic situation will develop. "

Henry Kissinger

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

Henry Kissinger

" 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. "

Henry Kissinger

" No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. "

Henry Kissinger

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

Henry Kissinger

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

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