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| Henry Kissinger
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise ... the bleeding will not end. Chile should not be allowed to go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible. Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. In crises the most daring course is often safest. In the United States as you know, we are sympathetic to what you're trying to do. We wish your government well. It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full. Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. 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 none. The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer. The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. When discretion on what crimes are subject to universal jurisdiction and whom to prosecute is left to national prosecutors, the scope for arbitrariness is wide indeed. You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria. [The] american temptation [is] to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. |
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