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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

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy. — Henry 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

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power. — 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

Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century. — Saul David

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

Postcolonial countries. All have sought to overcome the legacy of colonial — Henry 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

Because complexity inhibits flexibility, early choices are especially crucial. — Henry 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

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. — Henry Kissinger