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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.

Henry Kissinger

The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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Human Humanity Nature Peace Philosophy World
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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Oppression Rule
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics

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