The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I don't have a brief for every single reaction of Israel, but I think it is important that the political negotiations occur… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance. — 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
Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
More and more of the Taiwanese economy is connected with the mainland. There are more and more exchanges taking place. There's no… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I also do not believe that the United States can let itself be driven into a political role by escalating terrorism, and… — 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
China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have… — 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 true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
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 master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share
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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