“Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.”
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"Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger) is an American diplomat and political scientist. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as United States Secretary of State in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. For his actions negotiating the ceasefire in Vietnam (though never realised), Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances, with two members of the committee resigning in protest. After his term, his advice has been sought by world leaders including subsequent U.S. presidents." - Wikipedia
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“Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.”
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“Even a paranoid can have enemies.”
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“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.”
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“The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.”
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“I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.”
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“The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.”
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“No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.”
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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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“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
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