Kissinger, Henry
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Kissinger, Henry
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Kissinger, Henry
Constitutions
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Kissinger, Henry
Enemies
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it s their fault.
Kissinger, Henry
Bores and Boredom
There can t be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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Crisis
If you don t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
Kissinger, Henry
Goals
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
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Experts
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Kissinger, Henry
Leaders and Leadership
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Kissinger, Henry
Leaders and Leadership
We are all the President s men.
Kissinger, Henry
Loyalty
The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.
Kissinger, Henry
Loneliness
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Kissinger, Henry
Leaders and Leadership
Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Kissinger, Henry
Politicians and Politics
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Kissinger, Henry
Moderation
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Kissinger, Henry
Power
If it s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
Kissinger, Henry
Politicians and Politics
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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Reliance
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
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America
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Kissinger, Henry
Autobiography
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.
Kissinger, Henry
Alliances
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.
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Arms Race
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Kissinger, Henry
Adversity
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
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Advantage