The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken… — 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… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to… — 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
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
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
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
I do not know what will happen in China politically. I do know that it is impossible to maintain the communist system… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I'm against the concept of… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Well, on the American side, every new administration has to cut its teeth in a crisis, because before a crisis, you don't… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom… — 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
