The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
HENRY KISSINGERThere can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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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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History is the memory of States.
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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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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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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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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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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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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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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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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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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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