Henry A. Kissinger

You know, this is a very strange phenomenon. I keep reading that in American newspapers, and I keep reading extensive speculations. I…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm…

— Henry A. Kissinger

What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only…

— Henry A. Kissinger

I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China -…

— Henry A. Kissinger

We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Certainly nothing is easier than to rewrite history. If we had made Taiwan a separate state, it would have led to a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin…

— Henry A. Kissinger

President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences,…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China,…

— Henry A. Kissinger

They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their…

— Henry A. Kissinger

With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature…

— Henry A. Kissinger