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

Henry Kissinger

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" We are all the President's men. "

Henry Kissinger

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

Henry Kissinger

" 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

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

Henry Kissinger

" 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

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Henry Kissinger

" Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. "

Henry Kissinger

" 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. "

Henry Kissinger

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

Henry Kissinger

" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. "

Henry Kissinger

" The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. "

Henry Kissinger

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Henry Kissinger

" In crises the most daring course is often safest. "

Henry Kissinger

" To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. "

Henry Kissinger

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Henry Kissinger

" 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. "

Henry Kissinger

" If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately. "

Henry Kissinger

" 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. "

Henry Kissinger

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

Henry Kissinger

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

Henry Kissinger

" 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

" I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private. "

Henry Kissinger

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

Henry Kissinger

" The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. "

Henry Kissinger

" 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