"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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Quotes by Henry Kissinger
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"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."
Henry Kissinger"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 Kissinger"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."
Henry Kissinger"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
Henry Kissinger"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."
Henry Kissinger"Power is the great aphrodisiac."
Henry Kissinger"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."
Henry Kissinger"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
Henry Kissinger"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
Henry Kissinger"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."
Henry Kissinger"You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria."
Henry Kissinger"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
Henry Kissinger"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
Henry Kissinger"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."
Henry Kissinger"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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