Henry Kissinger Quotes
Who is Henry Kissinger!!!
Henry Kissinger was a national
security adviser and secretary of
state who helped shape U.S. foreign
policy under Presidents
Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
Kissinger played a key
role in the U.S. carpet-bombing
Cambodia
during the Vietnam War,
which killed thousands of
civilians and helped enable the rise
of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime.
Yet he also shared a Nobel Peace
Prize in 1973 for his involvement in
talks aimed at ending the Vietnam War.
""1""
It is not a matter of what is
true that
counts, but a matter of what
is perceived to be true.
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""2""
America has no permanent
friends or enemies, only
interests
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""3""
Military men are just dumb,
stupid animals to be used
as pawns in foreign policy.
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""4""
Nobody will ever win the battle
of the sexes. There is too much
fraternizing with the enemy.
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""5""
Don't be too ambitious.
Do the most important thing
you can think of doing every year
and then your career will take care
of itself.
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""6""
Power is the ultimate
aphrodisiac.
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""7""
There can't be a crisis next week,
my schedule is already full.
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The task of the leader is to
get his people from where
they are to where they have
not been.
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Corrupt politicians make the
other ten percent look bad.
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""10""
The issues are too important
to be left for the voters.
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""11""
A country that demands moral
perfection in its foreign policy
will achieve neither perfection
nor security
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""12""
Every victory is only the price
of admission to a more difficult
problem
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""13""
The nice thing about being
a celebrity is that if you bore
people they think it's their fault.
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""14""
The absence of alternatives
clears the mind marvelously.
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""15""
The state is a fragile organization,
and the statesman does not have
the moral right to risk its survival
on ethical restraint
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""16""
Poor old Germany. Too big
for Europe, too small for
the world
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Behind the slogans lay
an intellectual vacuum.
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It is not often that nations learn
from the past,even rarer that
they draw the correct conclusions
from it.
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""18*"
The illegal we do immediately.
The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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""19""
In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality
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Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.
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