What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. — 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
One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I think a resumption of the Cold War would be a historic tragedy. If a conflict is avoidable, on a basis reflecting… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it… — 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… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Administration has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst… — 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
Every time there has been an attempt to disturb it, it led to two things. It led to immediate intense conflict with… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
People are now starting to explain the Cold War. Even in the crises at that time the survival of millions of people… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. — 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 know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
When I became security advisor, I became familiar with the so-called SIOP war plans, I called in Secretary McNamara and asked him… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so… — 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
Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending… — 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
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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