Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
HENRY KISSINGERSelf-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
More Henry Kissinger Quotes
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America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests
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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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The issues are too important to be left for the voters.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
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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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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means, He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus
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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security
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If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.
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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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