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" Power is the great aphrodisiac. "
Henry Kissinger
Power
Aphrodisiac
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" To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. "
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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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" If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately. "
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" The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. "
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" 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. "
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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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" The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. "
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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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" Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end. "
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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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" 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. "
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" No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. "
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" The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. "
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" In crises the most daring course is often safest. "
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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. "
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" 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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" The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. "
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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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" 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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" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. "
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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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