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"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."
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"It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States."

"I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."

"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."

"Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person."

"In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together."

"I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy."

"They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none."
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"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion."

"Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits."

"I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read."

"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate."

"We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices."

"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady."

"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything."
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