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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

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
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Can governmental orders be invented from scratch by intelligent thinkers, or is the range of choice limited by underlying organic and cultural realities (the Burkean view)?
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Choice Government Intelligence Limitation Thinking
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
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
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
Yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace.
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Freedom Peace Rule Secure
In short, the end justifies the means.
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End Justice
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Animal Man Policy Stupidity
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
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Legal Politics Time
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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Himself Leadership Nation People
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Moral Perfection Policy Security

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