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

Henry Kissinger

For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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Expectation Nation Respect
Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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Learning Myself Necessary
The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Desire Heart Life Lose Tragedy Yourself

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