Quote #52

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

More from Henry Kissinger

  1. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
  2. To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
  3. The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
  4. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
  5. The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
  6. Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
  7. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
  8. When you meet the president, you ask yourself, 'How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president?'

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