Henry Kissinger Quotes

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

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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.

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We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

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Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.

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

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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

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It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

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

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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

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