Nations Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

15 Nations quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

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Kissinger’s take on nations reads like a masterclass in strategic thinking, where power dynamics and diplomatic nuance intersect in each concise observation.

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We are not just any nation.

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Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

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It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

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For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

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A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group…

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If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the…

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Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.

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In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because…

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It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the…

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The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great…

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Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know…

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We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years.…

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In the short term, it would not have made it possible to resume relations, because in the Chinese mind, the humiliation of…

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I am against portraying China as the demon of the global community. China has grasped more quickly than other countries what globalization…

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If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation,…

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90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

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Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...]…

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

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Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot…

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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…

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The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in…

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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…

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John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

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Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

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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…

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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…

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