It is always easy to divide the world into idealists and power-oriented people. The idealists are presumed to be the noble people,… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee… — 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 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
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
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
Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New… — 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
I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around… — 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
NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order. — 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… — 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 would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China -… — 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
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I was always convinced that decent people in the case of Vietnam, highly intelligent, decent people, got us involved because they had… — 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
The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power. — 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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