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

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

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
HENRY KISSINGER

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

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
HENRY KISSINGER

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, use...
HENRY KISSINGER

An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks b...
HENRY KISSINGER

History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
HENRY KISSINGER

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mo...
HENRY KISSINGER

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
HENRY KISSINGER

Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.
HENRY KISSINGER

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
HENRY KISSINGER

The essence of this man Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.
HENRY KISSINGER

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
HENRY KISSINGER

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without ...
HENRY KISSINGER

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond t...
HENRY KISSINGER

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
HENRY KISSINGER

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
HENRY KISSINGER

Even a paranoid can have enemies.
HENRY KISSINGER

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
HENRY KISSINGER

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
HENRY KISSINGER

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

There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
HENRY KISSINGER

We are all the President's men.
HENRY KISSINGER

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

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
HENRY KISSINGER

The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schis...
HENRY KISSINGER

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if...
HENRY KISSINGER

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwi...
HENRY KISSINGER

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
HENRY KISSINGER

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold...
HENRY KISSINGER

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
HENRY KISSINGER

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
HENRY KISSINGER

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bip...
HENRY KISSINGER

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds o...
HENRY KISSINGER

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

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

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
HENRY KISSINGER

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can s...
HENRY KISSINGER

Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territ...
HENRY KISSINGER

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from cap...
HENRY KISSINGER

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each ...
HENRY KISSINGER

I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear fr...
HENRY KISSINGER

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the ...
HENRY KISSINGER

Power is the great aphrodisiac.
HENRY KISSINGER

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid princip...
HENRY KISSINGER

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this give...
HENRY KISSINGER

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
HENRY KISSINGER

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not cr...
HENRY KISSINGER

In crises the most daring course is often safest.
HENRY KISSINGER

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
HENRY KISSINGER

The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The...
HENRY KISSINGER

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

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

No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of fe...
HENRY KISSINGER

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
HENRY KISSINGER

History knows no resting places and no plateaus.
HENRY KISSINGER

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
HENRY KISSINGER

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
HENRY KISSINGER

There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Stress - Kids Feel It Too...
HENRY KISSINGER

A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psy...
HENRY KISSINGER

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf ...
HENRY KISSINGER

I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bru...
HENRY KISSINGER

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of...
HENRY KISSINGER

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience...
HENRY KISSINGER

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop...
HENRY KISSINGER

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explo...
HENRY KISSINGER

The president is trying to head out in a direction that avoids civil war in Iraq, and that prevents ...
HENRY KISSINGER

We have overcomplicated the issue, ... The United States has been attacked on its territory with tho...
HENRY KISSINGER

There is nothing we are doing with the Soviet Union that you do not know,
HENRY KISSINGER

They want us to accept the desirability of destroying China's nuclear capability,
HENRY KISSINGER

A catastrophic outcome in Iraq would affect directly or indirectly all members of the (NATO) allianc...
HENRY KISSINGER

American abdication in Iraq will have global consequences if a fundamentalist radical state were to ...
HENRY KISSINGER

[One May 1970 cable marked] For Confidential Eyes Only ... feed over 6,000 enemy soldiers for a full...
HENRY KISSINGER

There's nothing more we can do about (the accidental bombing),
HENRY KISSINGER

I believe -- and certainly from everything I've been told about him -- that he's an honorable enough...
HENRY KISSINGER

At the end of that (peace) process, a Palestinian state was always inevitable, ... What other attrib...
HENRY KISSINGER

I think there is a chance of this working as long as ... at the end of what is being done, the terro...
HENRY KISSINGER

the gravest in the Atlantic alliance since it was formed.
HENRY KISSINGER

He's between Israel on one side, Iraq and Syria on the other, ... He knows that the Palestinians hav...
HENRY KISSINGER

a symbol of integrity, courage and of high quality.
HENRY KISSINGER

The Indians are master-psychologists. They know they have to deal with us because they are literally...
HENRY KISSINGER

at a moment when the international situation and the United Nations are in a stage of extraordinary ...
HENRY KISSINGER

It is hard to believe that Kay is no longer among us. But in a way, she will never leave us. Her pla...
HENRY KISSINGER

We're good at that.
HENRY KISSINGER

One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never...
HENRY KISSINGER

Congress can't do much more damage to us than they already have. To this extent we're liberated to d...
HENRY KISSINGER

We speak to no other country as frankly and openly as we do to you.
HENRY KISSINGER

I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as the...
HENRY KISSINGER

History knows no resting place and no plateaus
HENRY KISSINGER

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

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

Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.
HENRY KISSINGER

a review of withdrawal strategy ... seems in order.
HENRY KISSINGER

a potentially fateful event.
HENRY KISSINGER

If a radical government emerges in Baghdad or if any part of Iraq becomes what Afghanistan used to b...
HENRY KISSINGER

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
HENRY KISSINGER

Even a paranoid has some real enemies.
HENRY KISSINGER

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
HENRY KISSINGER

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault
HENRY KISSINGER

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of ...
HENRY KISSINGER

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherw...
HENRY KISSINGER

People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of r...
HENRY KISSINGER

There cannot be a crisis today; my schedule is already full
HENRY KISSINGER

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the wor...
HENRY KISSINGER

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.
HENRY KISSINGER

I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a uni...
HENRY KISSINGER

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? W...
HENRY KISSINGER

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility...
HENRY KISSINGER

It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region si...
HENRY KISSINGER

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

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

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.
HENRY KISSINGER

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
HENRY KISSINGER

On the one hand we want the Soviets to think that the situation might get out of hand, while on the ...
HENRY KISSINGER

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What...
HENRY KISSINGER

Diplomacy... the art of restraining power.
HENRY KISSINGER

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
HENRY KISSINGER

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
HENRY KISSINGER

In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective for ...
HENRY KISSINGER

Each group has what amounts to its own geographically concentrated militia ... Is it then possible t...
HENRY KISSINGER

Those who believe that confrontation with China can be a national strategy ... do not understand the...
HENRY KISSINGER

The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves
HENRY KISSINGER

"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow the...
HENRY KISSINGER

Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the e...
HENRY KISSINGER

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
HENRY KISSINGER

When you meet the president, you ask yourself, "How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be g...
HENRY KISSINGER

Can you imagine what Nixon would have been like had somebody loved him? He would have been a great, ...
HENRY KISSINGER

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
HENRY KISSINGER

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of th...
HENRY KISSINGER

When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
HENRY KISSINGER

Who do I call if I want to call Europe?
HENRY KISSINGER

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane; either you have diarrhea, or you'r...
HENRY KISSINGER

I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist att...
HENRY KISSINGER

Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met… and I mean that as a compliment.
HENRY KISSINGER

For me, the tragedy of Vietnam was the divisions that occurred in the United States that made it, in...
HENRY KISSINGER

We'll do it in the quickest way possible that is compatible with foreigners and making sure that whe...
HENRY KISSINGER

My heart goes out to the president because I've served in an administration that faced a very divide...
HENRY KISSINGER

The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.
HENRY KISSINGER

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
HENRY KISSINGER

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop ...
HENRY KISSINGER

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What...
HENRY KISSINGER

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
HENRY KISSINGER

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

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
HENRY KISSINGER

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
HENRY KISSINGER

The Shah (of Iran) was - despite the travesties of retroactive myth - a dedicated reformer
HENRY KISSINGER

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

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actio...
HENRY KISSINGER

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
HENRY KISSINGER

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very g...
HENRY KISSINGER

I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerilla-type wars, that the Obama Administration...
HENRY KISSINGER

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within...
HENRY KISSINGER

The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative internati...
HENRY KISSINGER

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some per...
HENRY KISSINGER

It is not unreasonable for us to desire some options. Some Europeans, I know, believe it is necessar...
HENRY KISSINGER

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
HENRY KISSINGER

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader ...
HENRY KISSINGER

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor se...
HENRY KISSINGER

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your ...
HENRY KISSINGER It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherw...
HENRY A. KISSINGER Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
HENRY A. KISSINGER Our state representative helped with tickets to that.
KRISTIN KISSINGER They are going by train; many students were excited about doing that.
KRISTIN KISSINGER They each have two minutes to speak. Get them in and out quickly.
KRISTIN KISSINGER

I would rather be right than President.
HENRY CLAY

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY

I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night ...
HENRY MILLER

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of ne...
HENRY MILLER

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the ...
HENRY BESSEMER

The people who influence you are the people who believe in you.
HENRY DRUMMOND

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests...
HENRY ROLLINS

Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans valu...
BRAD HENRY

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans th...
BRAD HENRY

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.
BRAD HENRY

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.
BRAD HENRY

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.
BRAD HENRY

The status quo is simply unacceptable.
BRAD HENRY

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.
BRAD HENRY

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opp...
BRAD HENRY

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we ...
BRAD HENRY

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach thei...
BRAD HENRY

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.
BRAD HENRY

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce i...
BRAD HENRY

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
BRAD HENRY

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family ...
BRAD HENRY

A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.
BRAD HENRY

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
BRAD HENRY

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is...
BRAD HENRY

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
HENRY MILLER

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
PATRICK HENRY

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abando...
HENRY ROLLINS Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best se...
HENRY MOORE

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.
HENRY CAVILL

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the e...
BRAD HENRY To succeed in hockey, you need teamwork.
HENRY SAMUELI

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
HENRY ROLLINS

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
HENRY FORD

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
HENRY ROLLINS

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
HENRY FORD

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

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