Quotes By Henry A. Kissinger

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

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

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

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

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

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

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

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

Even a paranoid can have enemies.

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.

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

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.