Quote #54

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

More from Henry Kissinger

  1. To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
  2. Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
  3. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
  4. When you meet the president, you ask yourself, 'How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president?'
  5. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
  6. Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the …
  7. The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
  8. Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?

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