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Kissinger notes that people often split the world into idealists and power‑hungry leaders. He warns that fearing the unknown can make societies give up rights for safety, and that peace is more than just no war. He also says a strong, wise nation alone cannot build a lasting world order.

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Who controls money controls the world.

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Let us fashion together a new world order.

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U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation

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How to Achieve The New World Order

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World population needs to be decreased by 50%

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NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

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The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

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NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order.

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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the…

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Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

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I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only…

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To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to…

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It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people,…

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Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst…

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To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to…

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[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a…

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You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or…

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We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our…

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We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years.…

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I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had…

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In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense…

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I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around…

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My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible…

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China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a…

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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public…

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People are now starting to explain the Cold War. Even in the crises at that time the survival of millions of people…

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Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially…

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If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation,…

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Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the…

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I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I…

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Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also…

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In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so…

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If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the…

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I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New…

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The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee…

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Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing…

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I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China -…

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I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and…

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I don't know what happens in the next years. But I cannot now design a policy in which we try to keep…

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Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing…

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Taiwan will probably not declare independence. The question isn't independence. The issue is whether Taiwan will declare itself as a sovereign separate state. That…

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China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start…

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With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

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I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and…

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University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

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