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I'm the one who gets called up about a problem. I'm the one who gets called up about the street lighting and the abandoned car. I'm the one who gets blamed if the police don't arrive. I'm the one they blame if a city truck is broken down.
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Quotes By Henry A. Kissinger
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every...
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No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it...
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace...
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It is after all the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar...
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they...
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Most foreign policies that history has marked highly in whatever country...
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started...
Quotes About War
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All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the...
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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing...
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And of course in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans...
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I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States...
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How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the...
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake...