139 ordspråk av Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger
The president is trying to head out in a direction that avoids civil war in Iraq, and that prevents the insurgents from dominating and establishing some sort of fundamentalist regime.
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
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The Shah (of Iran) was - despite the travesties of retroactive myth - a dedicated reformer
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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 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.
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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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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.
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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
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There cannot be a crisis today; my schedule is already full
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There is nothing we are doing with the Soviet Union that you do not know,
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There's nothing more we can do about (the accidental bombing),
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They (weapons) can become a shield by which to step up terrorist actions,
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They want us to accept the desirability of destroying China's nuclear capability,
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Those who believe that confrontation with China can be a national strategy ... do not understand the dynamics of the current and foreseeable international system,
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To argue that a collapse of the US in Iraq would not have consequences is simply living in a dream world,
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