Quotes by Henry Kissinger

“Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.”

“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”

“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”

“Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable”

“The bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult to attain later.”

“In every era, humanity produces demonic individuals and seductive ideas of repression. The task of statesmanship is to prevent their rise to power and sustain an international order capable of dete...”

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ”

“Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God”

“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.”

“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.”

“Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.”

“And history teaches this iron law of revolutions: the more extensive the eradication of existing authority, the more its successors must rely on naked power to establish themselves. For,in the end,...”

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.”

“Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of inform...”

“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.”

“People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.”

“Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.”

“Power is the great aphrodisiac.”

“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.”

“The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.”