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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

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

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

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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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" 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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" If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. "

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

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

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

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" The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. "

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

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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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" If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. "

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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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" There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire - this time under the Shia label. "

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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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" I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today. "

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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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" Even a paranoid can have enemies. "

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

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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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