Quote #32
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
More from Henry Kissinger
- Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
- It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.
- In crises the most daring course is often safest.
- It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
- If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
- Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
- If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
- Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.