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

Henry Kissinger

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" Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. "

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

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

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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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" The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony. "

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

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

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" The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. "

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" Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. "

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" The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. "

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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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" Power is the great aphrodisiac. "

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

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" I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so. "

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" I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" We are all the President's men. "

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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. "

Henry Kissinger

" 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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