3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn’t make it.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
