American - Statesman | May 27, 1923 -
There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire - this time under the Shia label.
Henry Kissinger
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It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
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Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.
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Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
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America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic contests between the regions and the sects will reappear, the Taliban will re-emerge, and a very complicated and maybe chaotic situation will develop.
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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Even a paranoid can have enemies.
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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
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