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. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Because of the axiom that guerrillas win if they do not lose, stalemate is unacceptable, ... the military challenge in Iraq is more elusive. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
at a moment when the international situation and the United Nations are in a stage of extraordinary transition. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We had a very interesting and positive discussion, and I appreciate the opportunity to meet with several of the key staff members of the governor's staff, ... A few weeks ago I stood with the governor when I spoke about present events and nuclear strategy, and my impression is we share very compatible views. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We are all the President's men. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I want to get into the President's head some idea of what he can do. If military actions are recommended to him for decision, I want him to know what he is doing when he decides. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The Indians are master-psychologists. They know they have to deal with us because they are literally now in worse shape than ever. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
American abdication in Iraq will have global consequences if a fundamentalist radical state were to emerge in Baghdad. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. Thereas too much fraternizing with the enemy. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Kay ennobled all of her human relationships, ... In the pain of this moment, none of us would trade places with those whose lives were never touched by Kay Graham. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The president is trying to head out in a direction that avoids civil war in Iraq, and that prevents the insurgents from dominating and establishing some sort of fundamentalist regime. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
On the one hand we want the Soviets to think that the situation might get out of hand, while on the other hand we want to persuade them not to let it get out of hand. The Soviets might stop without a major nuclear exchange. I don't believe they have an unlimited urge to escalate. I think they will be looking for excuses not to escalate. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We speak to no other country as frankly and openly as we do to you. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I believe -- and certainly from everything I've been told about him -- that he's an honorable enough man so that he will carry out his assignment with ability and with care. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever meta and I mean that as a compliment. - Henry A. Kissinger Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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