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" 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. "

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

Henry Kissinger

Policy

America

View

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

" We are all the President's men. "

Henry Kissinger

President

Men

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. "

" Even a paranoid can have enemies. "

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

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

" Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately. "

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

" 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. "

" If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. "

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

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

Henry Kissinger

Office

I Am

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

" The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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