Quotes from
Henry Alfred Kissinger (
1923-)
- "If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor."
- "There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."
- "Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision."
- "We are all the President's men."
- "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
- "Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
- "Even a paranoid can have enemies."
- "I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time."
- "Moderation is virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."
- "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
- "The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself."
- "We had been bombing the bejesus out of them since May." (on Cambodia)
- "It is very dangerous to underestimate German shortsightedness."
- "they shouldn't go in for slaughtering that way. It was terrible."
- "When I speak to your Foreign Minister, he never says, 'I entirely agree.' The most I get is, 'I essentially agree with you.'"
- "As everybody knows, the Soviet leaders belong to the most unpleasant group one can deal with. Their capacity to lie on matters of common knowledge is stupendous."
- "They are cold, pragmatic bastards." (On China's leaders)
Sources:
http://www.cyber-nation.com/victory/quotations/authors/quotes_kissinger_henry.html
http://www.uselessknowledge.com/
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/DOC_readers/kissinger/quotes.htm