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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

Henry Kissinger

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

Henry Kissinger

The wisest of realists are those who recognize that fate can indeed be shaped by human faith and courage.

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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

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It is barely conceivable that there are people who like war.

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For other nations utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is no farther than the intensity of their commitment.

Sometimes misquoted as: [...] for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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Born: May 27, 1923

Died: November 29, 2023 (aged 100)

Bio: Henry Alfred Kissinger was an American diplomat and political scientist. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as United States Secretary of State in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

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