Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

Henry Kissinger

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Henry Kissinger

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Henry Kissinger

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

Henry Kissinger

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Henry Kissinger

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

Henry Kissinger

There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

Henry Kissinger

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Henry Kissinger