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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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"Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all."
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"If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random."
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"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."
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"The trade unions, far from being content with these declarations, established international liaisons and supported every policy based on pacification and understanding."
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"Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable."
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"When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11."
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"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."
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"Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession."
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""Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash."
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"With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy."
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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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"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."
Society
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."
People
"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise."
Nature
"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."
Vision
"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."
Policy
"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."
Friendship
"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."
War
"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."
Experience
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
Crisis
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