I think that America’s recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy. Henry Kissinger Read Quote
Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction. Henry Kissinger Read Quote
Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises. Henry Kissinger Read Quote
I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerilla-type wars, that the Obama Administration has hit more targets on a broader scale than the Nixon Administration ever did. Henry Kissinger Read Quote
There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire – this time under the Shia label. Henry Kissinger Read Quote
I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today. Henry Kissinger Read Quote
America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War. Henry Kissinger Read Quote
It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other. Henry Kissinger Read Quote
I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Americans. Henry Kissinger Read Quote
