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
Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order. — 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 grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I… — 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
[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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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
China had never had to deal in a world of countries of approximately equal strength, and so to adjust to such a… — 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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the… — 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
Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only… — 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
Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing… — 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