Henry Kissinger Quotes

Henry Kissinger (52)

Birth:	27th March, 1923
Nationality:	American, German
Profession:	Businessman, Diplomat, Political Scientist, Secretary, Writer

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• Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

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• Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

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• People think responsibility is hard to bear. It’s not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.

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• The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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• No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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• You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

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• While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

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• Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

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• 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.

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• We are all the President’s men.

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• University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

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• To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

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• There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.

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• The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

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• The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

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• The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

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