Top 51 Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

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

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

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

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

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