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If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

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In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy. ↗

— Michael Kinsley

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The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side. ↗

— William Kirby

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There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state. ↗

— William Kirby

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I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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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. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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