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" I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions. "

Henry Kissinger

Myself

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" Power is the great aphrodisiac. "

" I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes. "

" Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end. "

" Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. "

" I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerilla-type wars, that the Obama Administration has hit more targets on a broader scale than the Nixon Administration ever did. "

Henry Kissinger

Study

Think

" I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans. "

" I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. "

" The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. "

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

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

" The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony. "

Henry Kissinger

Russia

Crisis

" We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it - namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants. "

" America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War. "

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

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

" Even a paranoid can have enemies. "

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

" Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing. "

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

" If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent. "

" I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. "

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

" There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception. "

" My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate. "

" A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect. "

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

Henry Kissinger

Office

I Am

" I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy. "