Henry Kissinger

“Who controls the money controls the world”

— Henry Kissinger

“When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.”

— Henry Kissinger

History knows no resting place and no plateaus

— Henry Kissinger

“Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world”

— Henry Kissinger

“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

“Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem”

— Henry Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.

— Henry Kissinger

“Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.”

— Henry Kissinger

No one will win the battle of the sexes, there is too much flirting with the enemy.

— Henry Kissinger

“If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.”

— Henry Kissinger

“The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese…

— Henry Kissinger

“Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology.”

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in…

— Henry Kissinger

“China produced no religious themes in the Western sense at all. The Chinese never generated a myth of cosmic creation.”

— Henry Kissinger

“In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its…

— Henry Kissinger

There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the…

— Henry Kissinger

I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall.…

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

“the emperor does not govern the barbarians. Those who come to him will not be rejected, and those who leave will not…

— Henry Kissinger

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined…

— Henry Kissinger

It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the…

— Henry Kissinger

I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerilla-type wars, that the Obama Administration has hit more targets on…

— Henry Kissinger

“Balance-of-power diplomacy was less a choice than an inevitability. No state was strong enough to impose its will; no religion retained sufficient…

— Henry Kissinger

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of…

— Henry Kissinger

“the convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue…

— Henry Kissinger

“New methods of accessing and communicating information unite regions as never before and project events globally—but in a manner that inhibits reflection,…

— Henry Kissinger

“To me there is not only right or wrong but many shades in between...The real tragedies in life are not in choices…

— Henry Kissinger

“interrelated. In contrast to the Western approach of treating history as a process of modernity achieving a series of absolute victories over…

— Henry Kissinger

“the participants in the public debate risk being driven less by reasoned arguments than by what catches the mood of the moment.…

— Henry Kissinger

“Where Western strategists reflect on the means to assemble superior power at the decisive point, Sun Tzu addresses the means of building…

— Henry Kissinger

“V rozepjaté a zadumané „ruské duši“ (jak o ní ruští myslitelé posléze začali hovořit) prodlévalo přesvědčení, že jednou veškeré ruské snahy a…

— Henry Kissinger

“The consensus that had sustained our postwar foreign policy had evaporated. The men and women who had sustained our international commitments and…

— Henry Kissinger

“Presidential campaigns are on the verge of turning into media contests between master operators of the Internet. What once had been substantive…

— Henry Kissinger

“Who controls money control the world.”

— Henry Kissinger

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

— Henry Kissinger

“In the Chinese version of exceptionalism, China did not export its ideas but let others come to seek them.”

— Henry Kissinger

“Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.”

— Henry Kissinger

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

— Henry Kissinger