13 Henry Kissinger Quotes on Politics

Henry Kissinger quotes on politics

10. If you mean by 'military victory' an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.

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

25. I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.

26. I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

31. Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.

33. It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

38. Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

40. 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.

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

45. The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

46. The Indians are bastards.

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

56. When you meet the president, you ask yourself, 'How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president?'