"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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"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."

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"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."

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"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."

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"Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts."

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"Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions."

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"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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"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."

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"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon."

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