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Henry Kissinger
American
Statesman
Born:
May 27
,
1923
Every
History
People
War
Will
You
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger
Funny
Crisis
Schedule
Week
Cannot
Next
Full
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinger
Mind
Absence
Clears
Alternatives
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
Leadership
People
Leader
Been
His
Task
Get
Where
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger
Politics
Politicians
Reputation
Other
Ninety
Ninety Percent
Bad
Percent
Give
Ten
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Henry Kissinger
You
Yourself
Beginning
Everything
About
No Regrets
Accept
End
Mean
Regrets
Apology
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
Henry Kissinger
You
Will
Every
Road
Know
Get
Going
Where
Nowhere
I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.
Henry Kissinger
People
Country
Important
Too
See
Voters
Due
Go
Issues
Left
Irresponsibility
Decide
Themselves
Much
Communist
Stand
Why
Watch
Need
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Henry Kissinger
Alone
Leadership
Leader
Unless
Willing
He
Name
Occasionally
Does
Stand
Deserve
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry Kissinger
Success
Problem
Difficult
Admission
More
Only
Ticket
Each
Buys
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger
Battle
Enemy
Win
Too Much
Will
Too
Sexes
No-One
Much
Ever
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger
Immediately
Unconstitutional
Takes
Longer
Little
Illegal
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry Kissinger
Art
Diplomacy
Power
Restraining
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
Henry Kissinger
War
You
Peace
Syria
East
Make
Without
Egypt
Middle
Middle East
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
Great
Power
Aphrodisiac
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.
Henry Kissinger
People
Free
Security
Moral
Imperative
Israel
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry Kissinger
Consequences
Responsible
Running
Leaders
Opinion
Opinion Polls
Polls
Public
Public Opinion
Public Opinion Polls
Actions
Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.
Henry Kissinger
Experience
Seen
He
Countries
Foreign
Foreign Countries
Came
Trump
Shocking
Office
Donald
Donald Trump
Them
Phenomenon
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Henry Kissinger
War
National
President
President Nixon
Unnatural
Nixon
Tried
Rather
Abstract
Emphasize
Make
Principles
National Interest
Than
Interest
Us
Vietnam
Required
Vietnam War
Why
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 none.
Henry Kissinger
Success
Matter
Few
Minds
Carried
Born
Policy
None
How
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Hearts
Any
Ingenious
Chance
The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.
Henry Kissinger
War
Great
Country
Enough
Our
Slogans
See
Study
Great Tragedy
Without
Tragedy
Happened
Far
Really
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Using
Now
Away
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Henry Kissinger
Enemies
Paranoid
Even
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Henry Kissinger
Army
Win
Lose
Guerrilla
Wins
He
Does
Loses
Conventional
The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.
Henry Kissinger
Values
Other
Significant
Attacks
Part
Academic
Reaction
Trump
Intellectual
America
Middle
Communities
Reasons
Large
Large Part
Phenomenon
Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.
Henry Kissinger
Service
Intelligence
Communicate
Difficult
Every
Other
Other Countries
Everybody
Would
Would-Be
Exactly
Admit
About
Hacking
Nobody
Countries
Piece
Because
Territory
Does
Doing
Scope
Very
Wants
Information
Sensitive
Capability
Who
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Henry Kissinger
Great
Vision
Must
Leaders
Invoke
Alchemy
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Henry Kissinger
Blessed
Past
Other
Horizon
Recovered
Never
Beyond
American
Just
Nations
Utopia
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