Quote #37

Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

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  1. Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
  2. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
  3. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
  4. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
  5. It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
  6. No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of no…
  7. It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.
  8. No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

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