All Henry A. Kissinger Quotes
- What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify. Decide
- We are all the President's men. All
- Some of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt… Anguish
- People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You… Absence
- The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. Appear
- We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing. Distinguish
- If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. Abject
- They [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating… American
- We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process… Aimed
- Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they… All
- Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals… Abroad
- World population needs to be decreased by 50% Decreased
- This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security. Afford
- Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that… All
- History is the memory of States. History
- Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum. Behind
- It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions. Advertised
- History knows no resting places and no plateaus Funny
- In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by… Argued
- The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,… Armed