Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
HENRY KISSINGER
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
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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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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Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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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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A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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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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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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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Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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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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George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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