Category: Henry A. Kissinger

“Power is the great aphrodisiac.”
-Henry A. Kissinger

“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 A. Kissinger

“It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.”
-Henry A. Kissinger

“Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.”
-Henry A. Kissinger

“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”
-Henry A. Kissinger

“People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.”
-Henry A. 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 A. Kissinger

“Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.”
-Henry A. Kissinger

“The statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.”
-Henry A. Kissinger

“Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.”
-Henry A. Kissinger