Henry Kissinger
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Henry Kissinger
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry Kissinger
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
Henry Kissinger
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Henry Kissinger
If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a…
Henry Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
Henry Kissinger
No side will win the Battle of the Sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinger
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Henry Kissinger
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinger
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
Henry Kissinger
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
Henry Kissinger
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
Henry Kissinger
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger
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…
Henry Kissinger
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Henry Kissinger
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Henry Kissinger
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
Henry Kissinger
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
Henry Kissinger
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry Kissinger
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles.