The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
HENRY KISSINGERPoliticians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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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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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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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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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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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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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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When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
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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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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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