Leadership Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

— Henry A. Kissinger

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

— Henry A. Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

— Henry A. Kissinger

One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.

— Henry A. Kissinger

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

— Henry A. Kissinger

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a…

— Henry A. Kissinger

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public…

— 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

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