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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.

~Henry Kissinger

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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

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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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My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

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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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I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

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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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For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Statesman

Born: May 27th, 1923

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