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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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"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."

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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."

"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."

"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise."

"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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