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.

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.