Quotes from Henry A. Kissinger

John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

We are all the President's men.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

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

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.

The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.