Henry A. Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

-Henry A. Kissinger

alone
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

-Henry A. Kissinger

amazing
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

-Henry A. Kissinger

art
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

-Henry A. Kissinger

art
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

-Henry A. Kissinger

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

-Henry A. Kissinger

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

-Henry A. Kissinger

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

-Henry A. Kissinger

funny
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.

-Henry A. Kissinger

future
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

-Henry A. Kissinger

god
Power is the great aphrodisiac.

-Henry A. Kissinger

great
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

-Henry A. Kissinger

great
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

-Henry A. Kissinger

history
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

-Henry A. Kissinger

history
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

-Henry A. Kissinger

leadership
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

-Henry A. Kissinger

leadership
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

-Henry A. Kissinger

leadership
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

-Henry A. Kissinger

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

-Henry A. Kissinger

peace
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

-Henry A. Kissinger

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

-Henry A. Kissinger

politics
Power is the great aphrodisiac.

-Henry A. Kissinger

power
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

-Henry A. Kissinger

power
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

-Henry A. Kissinger

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

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

-Henry A. Kissinger

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

-Henry A. Kissinger

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

-Henry A. Kissinger

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

war

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