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

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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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"Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves."

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"Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us."

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"And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating."

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"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

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"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."

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"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."

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"Power is the great aphrodisiac."

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