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51 quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

Henry Alfred Kissinger (/ˈkɪsɪndʒər/; born Heinz Alfred Kissinger [haɪnts ˈalfʁɛt ˈkɪsɪŋɐ]; May 27, 1923) is an American diplomat and political scientist. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. For his actions negotiating the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, he received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize (shared with Le Duc Tho, who refused the...
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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

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

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Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural.... →

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The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

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Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

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

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

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

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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

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

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