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" It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other. "

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" 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

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

" For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. "

" 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. "

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

" Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction. "

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

" Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. "

" We are all the President's men. "

Henry Kissinger

President

Men

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office. "

" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. "

" There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire - this time under the Shia label. "

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

" The high probability is if American forces withdraw from Afghanistan and if no alternative international arrangement is made that then the historic contests between the regions and the sects will reappear, the Taliban will re-emerge, and a very complicated and maybe chaotic situation will develop. "

" The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. "

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

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

" I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today. "

" 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. "

" The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. "

Henry Kissinger

Army

Guerrilla

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