Henry Kissinger

Statesman
1923.05.27

Sayings and Quotes

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
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Blessed Past Horizon Never
I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.
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Will Trump Endorsed
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Success Problem Difficult More
The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.
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Free Moral Security Israel
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
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End Will Possible Now
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
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Vision Great Must Alchemy
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.
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Experience People Leader Being
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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Win Battle Enemy Too Much
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
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God Blessed People Look
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.
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Good Never Natural Very
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
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Loneliness Essence Richard Nixon
America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
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War America Only Them
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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Time War Moment Country
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
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Know Nothing Everything Something
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
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Me People Amazing Talking
The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.
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America Values Intellectual Reaction
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.
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Success Born Chance Matter
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
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Whatever Happen Must Should
I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans.
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People Think Action Military
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