American - Statesman | May 27, 1923 -
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Henry Kissinger
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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.
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Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
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In crises the most daring course is often safest.
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I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.
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There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.
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Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.
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It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.
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We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it - namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.
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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.
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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
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