Henry Kissinger Quotes

American - Statesman Born: May 27, 1923

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

Henry Kissinger

Funny Week Next Crisis Cannot

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

Henry Kissinger

Leadership Leader People Get

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.

Henry Kissinger

Great War Enough Country

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

Henry Kissinger

You Road Know Will

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

Henry Kissinger

Yourself Beginning You End

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

Henry Kissinger

Success Chance Born Matter

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

Mind Absence Alternatives Clears

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Henry Kissinger

Art Power Diplomacy Restraining

The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic contests between the regions and the sects will reappear, the Taliban will re-emerge, and a very complicated and maybe chaotic situation will develop.

Henry Kissinger

Situation High Complicated American

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Henry Kissinger

Want Negotiation Request Sign

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Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

Great Power Aphrodisiac

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

Henry Kissinger

Little Illegal Longer Takes

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

Henry Kissinger

Blessed Past Horizon Never

Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.

Henry Kissinger

Intelligence Service Nobody Difficult

I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions.

Henry Kissinger

Myself People Political Special

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

Henry Kissinger

Success Problem Difficult Only

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

Henry Kissinger

Funny Thought Only Virtue

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

Henry Kissinger

Moment Time War Country

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

Henry Kissinger

Myself I Am Mistake Book

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

Henry Kissinger

God Blessed Look People

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

Henry Kissinger

War Only America Objectives

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

Henry Kissinger

Principles American Foreign Policy

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

Henry Kissinger

Good Never Natural Very

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Henry Kissinger

Believe Temptation American Policy

There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.

Henry Kissinger

Perception Foreign Policy Policy Role

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private.

Henry Kissinger

Always Done Human Rights Human

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