Leaders are responsible not ...

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

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We are all the President's men.
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We are not just any nation.
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The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
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A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.
 Henry A. Kissinger