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Henry Kissinger Quotes(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F3%2F3a%2FHenry_Kissinger_Shankbone_Metropolitan_Opera_2009.jpg%2F220px-Henry_Kissinger_Shankbone_Metropolitan_Opera_2009.jpg&hash=1888a89ec7fd6028b806defa71e50295dac66646)
A German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Henry Alfred Kissinger is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After his term, his opinion was still sought by many following presidents.
Here are some famous quotes by Henry Kissinger.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Diplomacy...the art of restraining power.
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Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
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In crises the most daring course is often safest.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
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Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
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90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.
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Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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The longer I am out of office the more infallible I appear to myself.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency it will be okay.
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.
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The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
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The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it's their fault.
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items just carry those twenty percent.
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People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
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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.
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If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart.
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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.
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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often in point of fact useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.