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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.
If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system
I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States.
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.
Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.
I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.
Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.
I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.
The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.
I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.
In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.
The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.
Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.
It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.
Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.
In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.
I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence
The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.