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"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."
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"You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."
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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
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"Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant."
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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."
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"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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"You're in America now," I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer."
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"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."
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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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"British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow."
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"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."
Home
"I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy."
Family
"I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance."
Experience
"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."
Diplomacy
"I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting."
Comfort
"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."
Government
"There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch."
Safety
"It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter."
Government
"To be alive at all involves some risk."
Risk
"If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough."
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