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" We are all the President's men. "

Henry Kissinger

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. "

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. "

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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 absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. "

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

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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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