Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I am against portraying China as the demon of the global community. China has grasped more quickly than other countries what globalization… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In the short term, it would not have made it possible to resume relations, because in the Chinese mind, the humiliation of… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...]… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
The convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue in office. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
Taiwan will probably not declare independence. The question isn't independence. The issue is whether Taiwan will declare itself as a sovereign separate state. That… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
