Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

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

Funny, Crisis, Cannot

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Henry A. Kissinger

Yourself, End, Mean

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

Politics, Bad, Give

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry A. Kissinger

Leadership, Leader, Task

Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry A. Kissinger

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

Leadership, Alone, Leader

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

Enemy, Battle, Win

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
Henry A. Kissinger

Important, Country, Why

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

Free, Moral, Security

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry A. Kissinger

Takes, Longer, Illegal

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
Henry A. Kissinger

Peace, War, Middle

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
Henry A. Kissinger

Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Henry A. Kissinger

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger

Art, Joy, Expression

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

Funny, Thought, Virtue

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Henry A. Kissinger

Percent, Carry, Sales

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

Opinion, Public, Leaders

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

Nice, Fault, Celebrity

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
Henry A. Kissinger

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

War, Time, Country

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
Henry A. Kissinger

Give, Cannot, While

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry A. Kissinger

Success, Problem, Difficult

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Henry A. Kissinger

Blessed, Past, Beyond

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry A. Kissinger

Power, Art, Diplomacy

In crises the most daring course is often safest.
Henry A. Kissinger

Often, Daring, Crises

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Statesman

Born: May 27, 1923

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