Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

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

Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government

Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries

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

Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.

World population needs to be decreased by 50%

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.

Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

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.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.

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

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order.

[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

How to Achieve The New World Order

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. The public does not fully understand the world into which it is going. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Those leaders who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.

The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

For any student of history, change is the law of life. Any attempt to contain it guarantees an explosion down the road; the more rigid the adherence to the status quo, the more violent the ultimate outcome will be.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.

Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." [...] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.

The elderly are useless eaters.

The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government, a New World Order.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

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

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.