Quote #35

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

More from Henry Kissinger

  1. It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
  2. Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
  3. It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.
  4. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what d…
  5. It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
  6. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
  7. Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
  8. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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