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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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Believe Problem
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
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
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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Evidence Friendship Lonely Mindset Path Walk
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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Humble Impossible Myself Praise Stop Thankful Time
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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Book Mistake Myself
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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End Establishment History Power Rise War
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
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 reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
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Genius Security

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