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Time Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

15 Time quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

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Henry A. Kissinger brings a diplomat’s eye to the concept of time, balancing strategic foresight with reflective pauses. These fifteen entries capture his distinctive blend of historical awareness and thoughtful consideration of how moments shape policy and destiny.

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Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the…

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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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We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who…

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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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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

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When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because…

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Statesmen think in terms of history and view society as an organism. Prophets are different since they believe absolute aims can be…

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I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then…

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If you mean by "military victory" an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that…

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I don't know what happens in the next years. But I cannot now design a policy in which we try to keep…

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Every time there has been an attempt to disturb it, it led to two things. It led to immediate intense conflict with…

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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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Everybody who has dealt with China over an extended period of time has come to more or less the same conclusions. There…

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There are some people who think that at some time in the future, China may challenge us for supremacy in the Pacific,…

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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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With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.

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I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting morality and…

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University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

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