Quotes by Henry Kissinger

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

“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.”

“Who do I call if I want to call Europe?”

“There cannot be a crisis today; my schedule is already full”

“If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.”

“Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government. - Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberger meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992.(in an address to the Bilderberger organization meeting at Evian, France, on May 21, 1991. As transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates. )”

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 deterring them if they do achieve it.

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 theres 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,legitimacy involves an acceptance of authority without compulsion; its absence turns every contest into a test of strength.

The acquisition of knowledge from books provides an experience different from the Internet. Reading is relatively time-consuming; to ease the process, style is important. Because it is not possible to read all books on a given subject, much less the totality of books, or to organize easily everything one has read, learning from books places a premium on conceptual thinking - the ability to recognize comparable data and events and project patterns into the future. And style propels the reader into a relationship with the author, or with the subject matter, by fusing substance and aesthetics.

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