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

Kissinger, Henry on Adversity
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"Even a paranoid can have enemies."

Kissinger, Henry on Enemies
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"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."

Kissinger, Henry on Experts
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"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."

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

Kissinger, Henry on America
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"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere."

Kissinger, Henry on Goals
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"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God."

Kissinger, Henry on Leaders and Leadership
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"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

Kissinger, Henry on Leaders and Leadership
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"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."

Kissinger, Henry on Leaders and Leadership
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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."

Kissinger, Henry on Arms Race
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"The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness."

Kissinger, Henry on Loneliness
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"We are all the President's men."

Kissinger, Henry on Loyalty
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"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."

Kissinger, Henry on Moderation
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"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."

Kissinger, Henry on Autobiography
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"Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."

Kissinger, Henry on Politicians and Politics
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"If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately."

Kissinger, Henry on Politicians and Politics
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"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

Kissinger, Henry on Power
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"The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself."

Kissinger, Henry on Reliance
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"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."

Kissinger, Henry on Bores and Boredom
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"If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor."

Kissinger, Henry on Advantage
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"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."

Kissinger, Henry on Constitutions
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"There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

Kissinger, Henry on Crisis
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