Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
I hope you don't learn too fast.
at a moment when the international situation and the United Nations are in a stage of extraordinary transition.
We'll do it in the quickest way possible that is compatible with foreigners and making sure that when the report is finished, there can be no question about the fact that every aspect has been explored, ... Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer.
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Diplomacy the art of restraining power.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.
For me, the tragedy of Vietnam was the divisions that occurred in the United States that made it, in the end, impossible to achieve an outcome that was compatible with the sacrifices that had been made, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Syria was too weak to fight Israel alone, ... He saw that if it didn't join the international system in some manner, it would fall hopelessly behind. His motive was entirely practical.
In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective for form of pressure than a squadron of B-52's.
We have overcomplicated the issue, ... The United States has been attacked on its territory with thousands of casualties. All the United States is saying it cannot tolerate weapons of mass destruction in that region.
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. Thereas too much fraternizing with the enemy.
If a radical government emerges in Baghdad or if any part of Iraq becomes what Afghanistan used to be, a training ground for terrorists, then this will be a catastrophe for the Islamic world and for Europe, much as they may -- reluctant as they may be to admit it -- and eventually for us.
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Even a paranoid has some real enemies.
He's between Israel on one side, Iraq and Syria on the other, ... He knows that the Palestinians have tried to overthrow him on a number of occasions, so he has to navigate with extraordinary delicacy.
On the one hand we want the Soviets to think that the situation might get out of hand, while on the other hand we want to persuade them not to let it get out of hand. The Soviets might stop without a major nuclear exchange. I don't believe they have an unlimited urge to escalate. I think they will be looking for excuses not to escalate.
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