Henry Kissinger

About Henry Kissinger

US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - )

Henry Kissinger popular quotes

1. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
2. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
3. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
4. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
5. No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
6. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
7. The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
8. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
9. Power is the great aphrodisiac.
10. Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
11. History knows no resting places and no plateaus.
12. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
13. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
14. Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
15. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.