Henry Kissinger - American Quotes

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The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

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The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

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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.

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Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: the more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

Memo to President Nixon

Henry Kissinger