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

Henry Kissinger

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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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 essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. "

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" A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect. "

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

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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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" The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. "

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" People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours. "

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" Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment. "

Henry Kissinger

" 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. "

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

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" The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. "

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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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" Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. "

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

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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. "

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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. "

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" Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. "

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

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

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