Henry Kissinger Quotes on Leadership
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
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As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the difference personalities make.
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In crises the most daring course is often safest.
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It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
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Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
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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 none.
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The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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When you meet the president, you ask yourself, 'How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president?'