Quotes of Henry Kissinger - somelinesforyou

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

- Henry Kissinger

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

- Henry Kissinger

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

- Henry Kissinger

“ The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane; either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane; either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ 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. ”

- 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

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

- Henry Kissinger

“ To argue that a collapse of the US in Iraq would not have consequences is simply living in a dream world. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ American abdication in Iraq will have global consequences if a fundamentalist radical state were to emerge in Baghdad. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. ”

- Henry Kissinger

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

- Henry Kissinger

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

- Henry Kissinger

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

- Henry Kissinger

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

- 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 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. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ 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. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies… ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ 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. ”

- Henry Kissinger

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

- Henry Kissinger

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

- Henry Kissinger
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