Henry Kissinger quotes

There cannot be a crisis today my schedule is already full. (Henry Kissinger)
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Henry Kissinger
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry Kissinger
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinger
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Henry Kissinger
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Henry Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinger
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. (Henry Kissinger)
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.
Henry Kissinger
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry Kissinger
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.
Henry Kissinger
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.
Henry Kissinger
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.
Henry Kissinger
The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.
Henry Kissinger
Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.
Henry Kissinger
If you mean by "military victory" an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible. (Henry Kissinger)
It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.
Henry Kissinger
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed ... History is a tale of efforts that failed, of aspirations that weren't realized... So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.
Henry Kissinger
If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America - and, indeed, with its negotiating partners of the Six - is unavoidable. Iran simply cannot be permitted to fulfill a dream of imperial rule in a region of such importance to the rest of the world.
Henry Kissinger
Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?
Henry Kissinger