Quotes by Kissinger, Henry

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

Kissinger, Henry on adversity   

"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   

"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   

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

Kissinger, Henry on goals   

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

Kissinger, Henry on leadership   

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

Kissinger, Henry on leadership   

"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."

Kissinger, Henry on leadership   

"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   

"The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness."

Kissinger, Henry on loneliness   

"We are all the President's men."

Kissinger, Henry on loyalty   

"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."

Kissinger, Henry on moderation   

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

Kissinger, Henry on autobiography   

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

Kissinger, Henry on politics   

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

Kissinger, Henry on politics   

"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."

Kissinger, Henry on power   

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

Kissinger, Henry on reliance   

"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   

"If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor."

Kissinger, Henry on advantage   

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

Kissinger, Henry on constitutions   

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

Kissinger, Henry on crisis