Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

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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.

Henry A. Kissinger

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Henry A. Kissinger

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Henry A. Kissinger

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 dec...

Henry A. Kissinger

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Henry A. Kissinger

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

Henry A. Kissinger

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Henry A. Kissinger

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

Henry A. Kissinger

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

Henry A. Kissinger

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Henry A. Kissinger

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

Henry A. Kissinger

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

Henry A. Kissinger

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

Henry A. 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 A. Kissinger

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

Henry A. Kissinger

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Henry A. Kissinger

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Henry A. Kissinger

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

Henry A. Kissinger

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Henry A. Kissinger

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

Henry A. Kissinger

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Henry A. Kissinger