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Henry A. Kissinger [1923-0] German

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Statesman, Former National Security Advisor of the United States

Henry Alfred Kissinger is an American diplomat and political scientist. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as United States Secretary of State in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Leadership, Art, Chance, Funny, Politics, Power, Success, War, Alone, Amazing, Experience, Famous, Future, History, Nature, Peace

Quote	Tags	Rank
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.	Funny	101
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.		102
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.		103
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.	Politics	104
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.	Experience	105
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.	History, Nature	106
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.		107
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.		108
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.	Leadership	109
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.	Leadership	110
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.	Art, Power	111
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.	Alone, Leadership	112
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.		113
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.		114
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.		115
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.	Chance, Success	116
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.	Peace, War	117
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.		118
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.		119
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.		120
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.	Politics	121
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.		122
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.		123
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.		124
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.		125
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.		126
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.	Art	201
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.	Success	202
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.		203
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.	Chance, Future	204
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.		205
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.	Famous	206
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.		207
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.		208
We are all the President's men.		209
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.		210
Power is the great aphrodisiac.	Power	211
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.		212
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.		213
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.		214
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.		215
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.		216
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.		217
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.	Funny	218
In crises the most daring course is often safest.		219
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.		220
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.		221
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.		222
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.	War	223
Even a paranoid can have enemies.		224
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.	Amazing	225

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