Henry Kissinger

Quotable quotes from the 56th Secretary of State of the USA.

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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

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There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane; either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

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Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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

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…none."

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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…

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

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

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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

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

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

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

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We are all the President's men.

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We are all the President's men.

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In crises the most daring course is often safest.

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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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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

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

[Henry Kissinger @HKissinger]

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