Henry A. Kissinger is a famous Statesman from Germany, he/she is 101 years old and still alive, born May 27, 1923.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable.
Our collection contains 43 quotes who is written / told by Henry, under the main topics: History - Power - War.
43 Famous quotes by Henry A. Kissinger
"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision"
"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it"
"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"
"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor"
"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets"
"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"
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone"
"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 American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions"
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault"
"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"
"Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts"
"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative"
"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision"
"Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions"
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full"
"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it"
"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been"
"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"
"Power is the great aphrodisiac"
"People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours"
"No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy"
"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise"
"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it"
"In crises the most daring course is often safest"
"If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere"
"If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately"
"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"
"If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent"
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves"
"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850"
"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make"
"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon"
"Even a paranoid can have enemies"
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem"
"Diplomacy: the art of restraining power"
"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God"
"While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive"
"Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately"
"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"
"We are all the President's men"
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small"
