Henry Kissinger Quotes 60

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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

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Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

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There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

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Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

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Task, Leader, People, Leadership

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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Power, Ultimate

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

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Truth, Perception, True, Matter

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

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Celebrity, People, Fault

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

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Ambition, Career

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem.

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Victory, Price, Admission, Problem

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests

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America, Friends

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

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A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

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Country, Moral, Perfection, Moral, Security

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

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Impossible, Time

The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small

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Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

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The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means... He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents...'

In short, the end justifies the means.

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War, Will, Kill, Guilty

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

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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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Leadership, People, God

Henry Kissinger

A German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration.

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