Henry Kissinger Quotes

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerilla-type wars, that the Obama Administration has hit more targets on a broader scale than the Nixon Administration ever did.

We are all the President’s men.

Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it’s very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they’re doing.

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

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I’ve always done it in private.

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.

I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.