Henry Kissinger quotes

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

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

— Henry Kissinger

quotes - Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

“Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.”

— Henry Kissinger

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

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

— Henry Kissinger

quotes - Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

“Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.”

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

“Power is the great aphrodisiac.”

— Henry Kissinger

“You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.”

— Henry Kissinger

“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.”

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

“No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.”

— Henry Kissinger

“The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.”

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

“If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.”

— Henry Kissinger

“Even a paranoid can have enemies.”

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

“While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.”

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

“Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.”

— Henry Kissinger

“Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.”

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

“If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.”

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

“In crises the most daring course is often safest.”

— Henry Kissinger

“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”

— 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.”

— Henry Kissinger

“It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.”

— Henry Kissinger

“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.”

— Henry Kissinger

“To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.”

— Henry Kissinger