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"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes."
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"When push to the wall. You have to develop strategies to scale over the wall."

"Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares."

"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."

"As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it."
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"We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders."

"I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant."

"The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures."

"There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world."

"The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends."

"When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests."

"Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations."
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