Covert action should not be confused with missionary work.
HENRY KISSINGERCovert action should not be confused with missionary work.
HENRY KISSINGERA more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck’s nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: 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.
HENRY KISSINGERSelf-governed nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies.
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 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
HENRY KISSINGERThe art of crisis management is to raise the stakes to where the adversary will not follow, but in a manner that avoids a tit for tat.
HENRY KISSINGERThe task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
HENRY KISSINGERWhere is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
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 KISSINGERThere can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
HENRY KISSINGERThe nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.
HENRY KISSINGERPolicy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative.
HENRY KISSINGERBehind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
HENRY KISSINGERin international affairs a reputation for reliability is a more important asset than demonstrations of tactical cleverness.
HENRY KISSINGERWe live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
HENRY KISSINGER