"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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"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.“
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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 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."
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"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
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"Diplomacy: the art of restraining power."
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"It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work."
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"Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."
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"I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."
-Orson Welles
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