"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."
-Henry A. Kissinger
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"You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria."
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"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."
-Henry A. Kissinger
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-Henry A. Kissinger
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"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
-Henry A. Kissinger
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"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it."
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"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."
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"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
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"I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas."
-Cher
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