Henry Kissinger
» Advantage » “If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.”
» Adversity » “Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”
» Alliances » “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.”
» America » “For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.”
» Arms Race » “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.”
» Autobiography » “I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.”
» Bores and Boredom » “The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.”
» Constitutions » “The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
» Crisis » “There can’t be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”
» Enemies » “Even a paranoid can have enemies.”
» Experts » “It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.”
» Goals » “If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.”
» Leaders and Leadership » “Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.”
» Leaders and Leadership » “Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.”
» Loneliness » “The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.”
» Loyalty » “We are all the President’s men.”
» Moderation » “Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.”
» Politicians and Politics » “If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.”
» Politicians and Politics » “Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”
» Power » “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”
» Reliance » “The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.”
