Quotes by Henry Kissinger

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

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Now when I bore people at a party they think its their fault.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

The history of things that didnt happen has never been written.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often in point of fact useless. Just as a leader doesnt need intelligence a man in my job doesnt need too much of it either.

I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency it will be okay.

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 who he assumes to have perfect vision.

90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer.

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.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think its their fault.

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see whats really happened.

America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.

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 didnt make it.