Kissinger Quotes

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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

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

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

The combination of both opinion and ideology has taken longer to develop conceptually than we had previously anticipated.

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

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

The Pentagon has been promoting powerful military operational art.

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

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be its friend is fatal.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing to occasionally stand alone.”

Terrorism has its psychological impact, more devastating than its physical impact.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The best structure is one which is born out of the distributed idea of the population.

One challenge is that we don’t have a national consensus.

It’s easy to criticize, particularly when you don’t have to make decisions.

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

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

Dependence is vulnerability.

In crises, leadership requires more than courage: it requires judgment.

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

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice, a soldier’s pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner’s chains.

It is not often, I think, that fate is so generous.

We are in danger of waking up one morning and finding that the front page headlines read ‘Germany and Japan enter alliance to dominate the free world.’

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The combination of both opinion and ideology has taken longer to develop conceptually than we had previously anticipated.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.

People are generally amazed how many people voted for us who don’t agree with us.

Every success is a temporary admission ticket to a bigger problem.

In crises, leadership requires more than courage: it requires judgment.

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

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

If I’m as dirty as they say in the newspapers, I must be the loneliest man in the world.

Time is not a neutral force.

If you control oil, you control nations. If you control food, you control people.

The world is full of leaders willing to risk their people’s lives to keep the peace…progress requires an alternative.

Covert operations are not an invention of timid governments.

In the state of nature, during the time men live without a common power to keep them in awe, they are in that condition called war, and such a war as is of every man against every man.

Peace is difficult, but a truce exists which gives us a chance to build peace.

If I were to offer a single phrase to capture the future of world order, it would be ‘Global Governance’.

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

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