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We are all the President's men.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
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.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private.
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.
I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.
There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.