America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War. -Henry Kissinger War
Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing. -Henry Kissinger Intelligence
I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today. -Henry Kissinger Wisdom
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. -Henry Kissinger Politics
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. -Henry Kissinger Famous
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. -Henry Kissinger Leadership
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. -Henry Kissinger War
Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment. -Henry Kissinger Leadership
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 Kissinger Success
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 Kissinger Chance
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. -Henry Kissinger History
The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened. -Henry Kissinger Great
The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened. -Henry Kissinger War
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. -Henry Kissinger Leadership
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. -Henry Kissinger Leadership
The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony. -Henry Kissinger Attitude
