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" 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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" 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

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

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

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

" The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. "

" Even a paranoid can have enemies. "

" 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. "

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

" A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises. "

" No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. "

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

" No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. "

" 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

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

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

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

" A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. "

" 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. "

" Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment. "

" 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. "

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

" We are all the President's men. "

Henry Kissinger

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Men

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

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

" Power is the great aphrodisiac. "

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