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

Henry Kissinger

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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Enemy Friendship
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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Argument Beginning End War
Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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Intellectual Politics
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Important Issue Vote
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Difficult Problem Success
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
in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Important Reputation Worth
order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Creation Freedom Peace Rule
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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Growth Live Strong Time Weakness
Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality

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