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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
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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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
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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Perspective Problem Thinking
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
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Improvement Inspirational Success
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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Big World
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
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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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important

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