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" I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private. "
Henry Kissinger
Done
Rights
Human Rights
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" Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end. "
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" I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy. "
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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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" I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so. "
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" The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. "
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Richard Nixon
Loneliness
" Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. "
Henry Kissinger
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Funny
Only
" 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. "
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Stand
Need
Important
" Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. "
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Labor
Art
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" In crises the most daring course is often safest. "
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Course
Most
Daring
" To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. "
Henry Kissinger
Know
Something
Nothing
" If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. "
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Nowhere
Know
" People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours. "
Henry Kissinger
People
Three
Talking
" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. "
Henry Kissinger
Happen
Whatever
Must
" Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. "
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Art
Power
Restraining
" The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened. "
Henry Kissinger
Tragedy
War
Country
" The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective. "
Henry Kissinger
War
Within
America
" If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately. "
Henry Kissinger
Better
Come
Out
" You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria. "
Henry Kissinger
War
Peace
Egypt
" Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. "
Henry Kissinger
Reputation
Bad
Politicians
" It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. "
Henry Kissinger
Responsibility
Leadership
Leader
" The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. "
Henry Kissinger
Longer
Illegal
Little
" 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. "
Henry Kissinger
People
Cruel
Action
" Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. "
Henry Kissinger
Eye
People
Look
" America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War. "
Henry Kissinger
War
America
Five
" 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 Kissinger
Matter
Born
Success
" 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. "
Henry Kissinger
Information
Intelligence
Service
" I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. "
Henry Kissinger
Mistake
Page
Myself
" 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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Perfect
Men
Blind
" If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. "
Henry Kissinger
Should
Want
Sign