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                                    Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                        
				                                                            
                                    Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                        
				                                                            
                                    Dr. Kissinger was surprised that I knew where Ghana was.                                
                                                        — Shirley Temple
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Even a paranoid can have enemies.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                        
				                                                            
                                    Let us fashion together a new world order.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint.                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Who controls money controls the world.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                        
				                                                            
                                    In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.                                
                                                        — Bob Woodward
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Faith is the first step on the road to salvation.                                
                                                        — Fr. Rodney Kissinger S.J.
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered ...                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force.                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.                                
                                                        — Henry A. 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 enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                        
				                                                            
                                    To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Cold War. China, though technically an ally of the Soviet Union, was in quest of maneuvering                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    How to Achieve The New World Order                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    I don't read books, I write them.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    There is no realism without an element of idealism.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Politicians are like dogs ... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    they agreed to cede a third of European Russia to German control in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of 1918.                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    A country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The elderly are useless eaters.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Does anyone have any questions for my answers?                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    For the greatest part of humanity and the longest periods of history, empire has been the typical mode of government.                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    What Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot completed.                                
                                                        — John Pilger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    We are all the President's men.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.                                
                                                        — Robert Dallek
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    World population needs to be decreased by 50%                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.                                
                                                        — Christopher Hitchens
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Power is the great aphrodisiac.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate.                                
                                                        — Robert Dallek
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Spanish territory in Florida and Texas - the                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    History knows no resting places and no plateaus                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    When the Chinese court deigned to send envoys abroad, they were not diplomats, but "Heavenly Envoys" from the Celestial Court.                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    When Germany declared itself ready to discuss an armistice, Wilson refused to negotiate until the Kaiser abdicated.                                
                                                        — Henry Kissinger
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.                                
                                                        — Henry A. Kissinger