Henry Kissinger
17 quotations
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.
We are all the President's men.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.