Quote #38

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

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  2. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
  3. Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
  4. 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…
  5. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
  6. No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
  7. It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
  8. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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