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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.

— Henry Kissinger

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The accumulation of nuclear arms has to be constrained if mankind is not to destroy itself.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

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