A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
HENRY KISSINGERAmericans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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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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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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In effect, none of the most important countries which must build a new world order have had any experience with the multi-state system that is emerging. Never before has a new world order had to be assembled from so many different perceptions, or on so global a scale.
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For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,
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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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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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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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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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If Chinese exceptionalism represented the claims of a universal empire, Japanese exceptionalism sprang from the insecurities of an island nation borrowing heavily from its neighbor, but fearful of being dominated by it.
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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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Americans have a tendency to believe that when there’s a problem there must be a solution.
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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.
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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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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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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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Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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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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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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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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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.
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