Henry A. Kissinger

We would be prepared, at your request, through whatever sources you wish, to give you whatever information we have about the disposition of Soviet forces,

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

History knows no resting place and no plateaus

I hope you don't learn too fast.

at a moment when the international situation and the United Nations are in a stage of extraordinary transition.

We'll do it in the quickest way possible that is compatible with foreigners and making sure that when the report is finished, there can be no question about the fact that every aspect has been explored, ... Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

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.

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

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

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Diplomacy the art of restraining power.

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

I think there is a chance of this working as long as ... at the end of what is being done, the terrorists should not be able to say that they got us to do things that we would not have done except for terrorism,

I think the only way to go is to do what they think is the right thing and explain it as well as they can to the American people, as the president is attempting to do with these speeches. The public will not forgive you for losing even if it seems to reflect what they thought they wanted.

For me, the tragedy of Vietnam was the divisions that occurred in the United States that made it, in the end, impossible to achieve an outcome that was compatible with the sacrifices that had been made, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

There is nothing we are doing with the Soviet Union that you do not know,

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Syria was too weak to fight Israel alone, ... He saw that if it didn't join the international system in some manner, it would fall hopelessly behind. His motive was entirely practical.

In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective for form of pressure than a squadron of B-52's.

We have overcomplicated the issue, ... The United States has been attacked on its territory with thousands of casualties. All the United States is saying it cannot tolerate weapons of mass destruction in that region.

They (weapons) can become a shield by which to step up terrorist actions,

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. Thereas too much fraternizing with the enemy.

If a radical government emerges in Baghdad or if any part of Iraq becomes what Afghanistan used to be, a training ground for terrorists, then this will be a catastrophe for the Islamic world and for Europe, much as they may -- reluctant as they may be to admit it -- and eventually for us.