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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
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There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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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.
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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
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If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.
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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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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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