Years Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

16 Years quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

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Henry A. Kissinger’s take on years feels like a seasoned diplomat’s notebook, noting how decades influence power, decisions, and global shifts. Across 16 quotes you’ll see the weight of experience distilled into concise observations.

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In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.

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China has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not…

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What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in…

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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…

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What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who…

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The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was…

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Well it did not make excessive sense to say that 20 million people are the recognized government of a billion people 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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I have been observing China for more than 30 years and am impressed how logically and wisely it tackles its problems. Obviously…

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I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao.…

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The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only…

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I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war…

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More and more of the Taiwanese economy is connected with the mainland. There are more and more exchanges taking place. There's no…

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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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Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea…

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I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around…

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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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