China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The Western concept of democracy is based on the idea that the loser of an election has the possibility next time round… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
If you mean by "military victory" an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Like any developing country, it has an inequality of wealth. In the Chinese case, it is particularly [pronounced] by the fact that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts. — 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
China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Almost every peace process that has gone on between the Arab side and Israel, the United States has been somewhat isolated because… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
