Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - )


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- History knows no resting places and no plateaus.

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- There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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

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

Henry Kissinger -
- University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry Kissinger - New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
- The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

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- Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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- Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

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

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

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- The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger -
- The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger -
- There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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- The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinger - Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
- Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger - Years of Upheaval
- A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.

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

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- No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy.