Henry Kissinger Short Quotes

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History knows no resting places and no plateaus.

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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.

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We are the President's men and we must behave accordingly.

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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

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

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

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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

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The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

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The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

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Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

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Mr Clinton does not have the strength of character to be a war criminal.

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

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[Richard Nixon] would have been a great, great man had somebody loved him.

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

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

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

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

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Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

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Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

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The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.

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

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

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Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered...

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History has so far shown us only two roads to international stability: domination and equilibrium.

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

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

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

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

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