29 Quotes By Henry A. Kissinger


University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry A. Kissinger on politics

Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry A. Kissinger on power

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry A. Kissinger on power

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry A. Kissinger on success

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 A. Kissinger on success

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry A. Kissinger on time

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry A. Kissinger on war

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
Henry A. Kissinger on 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 didn't make it.
Henry A. Kissinger on war