Henry Kissinger

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but…

— Henry Kissinger

Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially…

— Henry Kissinger

“New methods of accessing and communicating information unite regions as never before and project events globally—but in a manner that inhibits reflection,…

— Henry Kissinger

“The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese…

— Henry Kissinger

“Like the United States, China thought of itself as playing a special role. But it never espoused the American notion of universalism…

— Henry Kissinger

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

— Henry Kissinger

“Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable”

— Henry Kissinger

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined…

— Henry Kissinger

“If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.”

— Henry Kissinger

“In the Chinese version of exceptionalism, China did not export its ideas but let others come to seek them.”

— Henry Kissinger

“In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its…

— Henry Kissinger

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault

— Henry Kissinger

“For Sun Tzu, victory is not simply the triumph of armed forces. Instead, it is the achievement of the ultimate political objectives…

— Henry Kissinger

“China produced no religious themes in the Western sense at all. The Chinese never generated a myth of cosmic creation.”

— Henry Kissinger

“The consensus that had sustained our postwar foreign policy had evaporated. The men and women who had sustained our international commitments and…

— Henry Kissinger

No one will win the battle of the sexes, there is too much flirting with the enemy.

— Henry Kissinger

“The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small”

— Henry Kissinger

Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

— Henry Kissinger

“Chinese thinkers developed strategic thought that placed a premium on victory through psychological advantage and preached the avoidance of direct conflict.”

— Henry Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.

— Henry Kissinger

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why?…

— Henry Kissinger

“Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.”

— Henry Kissinger

“the emperor does not govern the barbarians. Those who come to him will not be rejected, and those who leave will not…

— Henry Kissinger

“the convictions that leaders have formed before reaching high office are the intellectual capital they will consume as long as they continue…

— Henry Kissinger

“Presidential campaigns are on the verge of turning into media contests between master operators of the Internet. What once had been substantive…

— Henry Kissinger