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The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.

Henry Kissinger

Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
HENRY KISSINGER

Intellectual Politics
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
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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Art Fight War
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
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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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
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
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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Alone Deserve Leadership
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
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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Greatness History Leadership Peace Problem
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
HENRY KISSINGER

Intellectual Politics
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
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Funny Mistake People Thinking Yourself

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