There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger
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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 nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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.
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
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