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