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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
- Negotiation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Assuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Horizon
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- Nov 07, 2020
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
- Blind
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all the President's men.
- Daring
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- Nov 07, 2020
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
- Forum
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
- Diplomacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
- Confines
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Consequences
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
- American Foreign Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
- Guerrilla
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
- Perception
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020