The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
HENRY KISSINGERThe illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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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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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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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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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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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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The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
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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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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
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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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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 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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