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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.

Henry Kissinger

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
HENRY KISSINGER

Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial.
HENRY KISSINGER

Oppression Rule
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.
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Moral Right Risk Survive
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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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Learning Myself Necessary
The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
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Art Avoid Revenge
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
HENRY KISSINGER

Funny Future

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