Henry Kissinger Quotes

Henry Kissinger Quotes.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. An

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
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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
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
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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
I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.
Henry Kissinger
We are all the President’s men.
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 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.
Henry Kissinger
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry Kissinger
You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.
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
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Henry Kissinger
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry Kissinger
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.
Henry Kissinger