It has the added advantage of being true.
HENRY KISSINGERThe reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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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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A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
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The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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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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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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