I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
HENRY KISSINGERNobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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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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It is one of history’s ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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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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The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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History is the memory of States.
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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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