I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity. — 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
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice… — 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… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
There are some people who think that at some time in the future, China may challenge us for supremacy in the Pacific,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting… — 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
If a Chinese plane landed at Los Angeles Airport having just bought down an American military plane, he wouldn't be permitted to… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into… — 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
Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially… — 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.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I don't know what happens in the next years. But I cannot now design a policy in which we try to keep… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Deng Xiaoping thought of himself as a great revolutionary and a great reformer. He had dismantled the Chinese communist management of the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay. — 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
Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For my generation the relationship with Europe was the central point of American foreign policy. Even during my time in government there… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I have been observing China for more than 30 years and am impressed how logically and wisely it tackles its problems. Obviously… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But… — 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 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
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