7 Henry Kissinger Quotes on Geopolitics

Henry Kissinger quotes on geopolitics

5. In the 1950s and 1960s we put several thousand nuclear weapons into Europe. To be sure, we had no percise idea of what to do with them.

6. The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

9. If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America - and, indeed, with its negotiating partners of the Six - is unavoidable. Iran simply cannot be permitted to fulfill a dream of imperial rule in a region of such importance to the rest of the world.

15. 'Who do I call if I want to call Europe?'

39. No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

58. Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?

59. You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.