in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
HENRY KISSINGERCorrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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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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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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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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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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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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Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
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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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