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.

Wikileaks in its essence is a publisher, pure and simple. They were very much in the same position as 'The New York Times' and 'The Guardian.'

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.