Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

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.

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

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.

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

— Henry Kissinger

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

We are all the President's men.

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger