Tag: Henry Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

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Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the ‘Establishment’ as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.

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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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Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There’s just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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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.

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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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

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The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other.

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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

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