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Henry Kissinger Quotes

American - Statesman | May 27, 1923 -

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 Kissinger

War Why Principles Vietnam War Us

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 Kissinger

Leader Experience People Risk Role

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

Mind Absence Alternatives Clears

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Henry Kissinger

Past Blessed Horizon Beyond Never

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Henry Kissinger

Leadership Leader Alone Name Stand

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Henry Kissinger

Win Army Lose He Guerrilla Wins

I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions.

Henry Kissinger

Myself People Political Intelligent

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Henry Kissinger

People Stand Country Go Important

The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.

Henry Kissinger

War People America Tragedy Within

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

Success Problem More Difficult Only

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Henry Kissinger

Time Moment War Country Act Globe

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

Henry Kissinger

Free Security Moral Israel

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