Quote #43

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

More from Henry Kissinger

  1. The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
  2. The essence of this man is loneliness.
  3. No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
  4. The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
  5. 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…
  6. The Indians are bastards.
  7. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
  8. The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

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