For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.
HENRY KISSINGERThere can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon.
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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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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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Self-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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Politicians are like dogs, Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable
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History is the memory of States.
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For nations, history plays the role that character confers on human beings.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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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 human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
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It has the added advantage of being true.
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We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
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The mindset for walking lonely political paths may not be self-evident to those who seek confirmation by hundreds, sometimes thousands of friends on Facebook.
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Don’t be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.
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