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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
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The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Henry A. Kissinger

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There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry A. Kissinger

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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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Funny

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The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.
Henry A. Kissinger

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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.
Henry A. Kissinger

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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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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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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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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.
Henry A. Kissinger

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Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry A. Kissinger

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We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry A. Kissinger

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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.
Henry A. Kissinger

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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
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