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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

Henry Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Choice Important Reputation Worth
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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Blessing Destiny Eyes God Leadership People Play
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
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
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
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.
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Avoidance Development Direction Thinking Victory
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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Philosophy Power Science
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
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

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