Henry A. Kissinger Quotes


49 quotes:

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it"
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"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."
Author: Kissinger Quotes Category: Reality Quotes
"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."
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"The president has said publicly, and he has told me privately, that he has every intention to carry out the recommendations of the commission,"
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"History knows no resting place and no plateaus"
Author: Kissinger Quotes Category: History Quotes
"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. )"
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"Even a paranoid can have enemies."
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"Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
Author: Kissinger Quotes Category: Enemies Quotes
"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."
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"There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
Author: Kissinger Quotes Category: Crisis Quotes
"There cannot be a crisis today; my schedule is already full"
Author: Kissinger Quotes Category: Crisis Quotes
"To argue that a collapse of the US in Iraq would not have consequences is simply living in a dream world,"
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"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
Author: Kissinger Quotes Category: British Actor Quotes
"The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness."
Author: Kissinger Quotes Category: British Actor Quotes
"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."
Author: Kissinger Quotes Category: British Actor Quotes
"While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive."
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"The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions."
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"Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions."
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"Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts."
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"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make."
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