The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
HENRY KISSINGERPower is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
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I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
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A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.
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Who controls the money controls the world.
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If chess is about the decisive battle, wei qi is about the protracted campaign. The chess player aims for total victory. The wei qi player seeks relative advantage.
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Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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in international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.
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To undertake a journey on a road never before traveled requires character and courage: character because the choice is not obvious; courage because the road will be lonely at first. And the statesman must then inspire his people to persist in the endeavor.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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The goal of the tribute system was to foster deference, not to extract economic benefit or to dominate foreign societies militarily.
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Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning, Bismarck had cautioned.
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A Harvard study has shown that in fifteen cases in history where a rising and an established power interacted, ten ended in war.
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