Henry Kissinger - Leaders Quotes

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Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Henry Kissinger

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Henry Kissinger

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

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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.

Henry Kissinger

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts... It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

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The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office.

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