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Henry A. Kissinger

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“A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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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.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“Power is the great aphrodisiac.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“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 none.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.”— Henry A. Kissinger
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“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.”— Henry A. Kissinger