American - Statesman | May 27, 1923 -
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry 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.
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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
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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.
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My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.
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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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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
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Power is the great aphrodisiac.
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