Henry Kissinger Quotes

• In crises the most daring course is often safest.

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• If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

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• If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

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• 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.

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• If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

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• Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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• Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

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• Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

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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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• Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

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• 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.

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

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• Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

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• No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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• There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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• Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

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Henry Kissinger (64)

Birth:	27th May, 1923
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Diplomat, Political Scientist, Statesman

About

Henry Alfred Kissinger was born in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany. He is an American diplomat, statesman 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. For his actions negotiating an unsuccessful ceasefire in Vietnam, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances, with two members of the committee resigning in protest. He received his BA(political science), MA, and PhD(International Relations) degrees from Harvard University in 1950, 1952, and 1954. His doctoral dissertation was titled "Peace, Legitimacy, and the Equilibrium". He has written several books include: A World Restored, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy(Nominations: National Book Award for Nonfiction), American Foreign Policy, White House years(memoir), Years of Upheaval(memoir), Diplomacy, Years of Renewal(memoir), Does America Need a Foreign Policy?, Ending the Vietnam War, and On China.

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