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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
