Famous Quotes / Henry Kissinger
36 Quotations by Henry Kissinger
- 1. A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes ...
- 2. Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without ...
- 3. Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
- 4. Even a paranoid can have enemies.
- 5. Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
- 6. For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond t ...
- 7. History knows no resting places and no plateaus.
- 8. I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
- 9. If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
- 10. If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
- 11. If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
- 12. It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to ...
- 13. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
- 14. Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
- 15. Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation
- 16. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- 17. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
- 18. No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
- 19. Power is the great aphrodisiac.
- 20. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.