When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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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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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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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
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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.
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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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A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.
Henry Kissinger in Years of Upheaval
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Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.
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