People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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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.
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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 American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
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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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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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Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
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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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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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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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