The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I do not believe that Putin intends to leave office in a Cold War atmosphere with the United States. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and… — 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
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
In Asia, the nation state still is extremely vital, and of course, then in Africa, a whole new pattern is emerging because… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or… — 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
Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years.… — 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
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
Almost every peace process that has gone on between the Arab side and Israel, the United States has been somewhat isolated because… — 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
The Western concept of democracy is based on the idea that the loser of an election has the possibility next time round… — 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
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
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
Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but… — 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
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
Of course, in principle, they're against it. We are the ones that keep asking them what they think about it. I think… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this… — 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
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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