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" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. "

Henry Kissinger

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

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

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

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

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" Even a paranoid can have enemies. "

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" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. "

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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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" 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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