When statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
HENRY KISSINGERWhen statesmen want to gain time, they offer to talk.
HENRY KISSINGERThe reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small
HENRY KISSINGERThe mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
HENRY KISSINGERCorrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
HENRY KISSINGERA country whose security depends on producing a genius in each generation sets itself a task no society has ever met.
HENRY KISSINGERThe Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America.
HENRY KISSINGERThe illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
HENRY KISSINGERThe task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
HENRY KISSINGERPolicy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
HENRY KISSINGERSince Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
HENRY KISSINGERAmericans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.
HENRY KISSINGERIn the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
HENRY KISSINGERWho controls the money controls the world.
HENRY KISSINGEREach success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
HENRY KISSINGERThe nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
HENRY KISSINGEREvery victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem
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