Quote #42

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

More from Henry Kissinger

  1. No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
  2. The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
  3. No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of no…
  4. The essence of this man is loneliness.
  5. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
  6. The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
  7. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
  8. The Indians are bastards.

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