The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The British capitalize on their accent when they don't want you to know what they're saying. But if you wake them up… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done.… — 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
When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I have said there are three principles that should be followed. One, we should maintain the "one China" policy that every American… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial in the country and that the most important thing we need in the current situation is, whatever disagreements there may be on tactics, that the legitimacy of the war itself does not become a subject… — 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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