Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

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

"People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence."

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."

"The Chinese have run their system for 3,000 years without advice from the U.S.. They don't like to be lectured by a country only 200 years old."

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

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

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

"Power is the great aphrodisiac."

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

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

"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."

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

"To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal"

"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government." - Henry Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberger meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992. (in an address to the Bilderberger organization meeting at Evian, France, on May 21, 1991. As transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates. )"

"There cannot be a crisis today; my schedule is already full"

"There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

"Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy."

"Even a paranoid can have enemies."

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

"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."