Henry Kissinger quotes Born: 05/27/1923 Country: usa

• Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end. (Henry Kissinger) [needs/willpower/start]
• "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. (Henry Kissinger) [politicians/give/bad/reputation]
• Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. (Henry Kissinger) [power]
• There cannot be a crisis today; my schedule is already full. (Henry Kissinger) [crisis]
• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. (Henry Kissinger) [leader/people]
• The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. (Henry Kissinger) [temptation/]
• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. (Henry Kissinger) [willpower]
• Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. (Henry Kissinger) [more/problem]
• People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours. (Henry Kissinger) [people/take/interest/form]
• To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. (Henry Kissinger)
• Diplomacy... the art of restraining power. (Henry Kissinger) [diplomacy/art/power]
• The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. (Henry Kissinger) [mind]
• For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. (Henry Kissinger) [past]
• The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. (Henry Kissinger)
• Even a paranoid can have enemies. (Henry Kissinger) [enemies]
• It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. (Henry Kissinger) [responsibility/expert/leader]
• Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. (Henry Kissinger) [people/look/god]
• The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. (Henry Kissinger) [leader/people]
• The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness. (Henry Kissinger) [essence]
• Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. (Henry Kissinger) [alchemy]
• Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. (Henry Kissinger) [politicians/give/bad/reputation]
• Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. (Henry Kissinger) [virtue]
• Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. (Henry Kissinger) [power]
• The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. (Henry Kissinger) [office/more]
• For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. (Henry Kissinger) [past]
• I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. (Henry Kissinger) [being/mistake]
• 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) [future/chance/future/remember]
• 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) [men/feeling/perfect]
• Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. (Henry Kissinger) [more/problem]
• If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. (Henry Kissinger)
• A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. (Henry Kissinger) [leader]

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