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" The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. "

Henry Kissinger

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

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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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" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. "

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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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" The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision. "

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

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

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" Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. "

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" Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. "

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

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

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

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" We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. "

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