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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.

Henry Kissinger

Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
HENRY KISSINGER

Force Rule
If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Decision Seek Victory
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Appearance Bad Politics
It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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Learning Nation Past
To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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Character Choice Courage Inspirational Journey Lonely People Road Travel
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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Art Avoid Revenge
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Goal Nation Reality
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tempts empty posturing.
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Empty Power Strength
It’s a pity both sides can’t lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)
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Lose War
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
It has the added advantage of being true.
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True
The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
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Politics Reason
Who controls the money controls the world.
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Control Money Power World

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