Henry A. Kissinger

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.