The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. – Henry Kissinger
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. – Henry Kissinger
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. – Henry Kissinger
You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria. – Henry Kissinger
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. – Henry Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault. – Henry Kissinger
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. – Henry Kissinger
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. – Henry Kissinger
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. – Henry Kissinger
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive. – Henry Kissinger
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. – Henry Kissinger
