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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Henry Kissinger

Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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Commitment Dog Expectation Growth Life Politics
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Absence Mindset
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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Ambitious Care Career Important Thinking
Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
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Action Difference
If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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Path Road Success Yourself
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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Expectation Nation Respect
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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Deep Philosophy True
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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One Liner Power
There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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Funny Future
Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial.
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Choice Early Habit Important
Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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Difficult Price Problem Victory
Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
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Art Policy Possible Science
Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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Greatness Growth War
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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Growth Issue Live Strong Time Weakness Wonderful
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Politics Reputation
Order always requires a subtle balance of restraint, force, and legitimacy.
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Force Rule

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

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