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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Henry Kissinger

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
For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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Character History Human Nation Play
What distinguishes Sun Tzu from Western writers on strategy is the emphasis on the psychological and political elements over the purely military.
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Strategy Writing
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
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Achievement End Peace Power
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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Nation Rule Trust
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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Class History Oneself
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Deep Philosophy True
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Goal Oppression
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
History is the memory of States.
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History Memories
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.
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Force Language Understand
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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History Justice Peace Teaching
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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Guilty Himself Kill Principle War Willing

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