Henry Kissinger

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

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

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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

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

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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

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

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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

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

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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

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

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973

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

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

Henry Kissinger, New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973

Henry Kissinger

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

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

Henry Kissinger, Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979

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

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

Henry Kissinger, Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979

Henry Kissinger

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

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

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval

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

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.

Henry Kissinger, Years of Upheaval

Henry Kissinger

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

History knows no resting places and no plateaus.

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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

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

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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

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

Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger

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

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

Henry Kissinger