319 Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

No, [the U.S.] has made it clear that we consider a peaceful resolution an essential aspect of American foreign policy. This I believe to be a situation understood by China, but again, it is important to not sound too truculent. Taking on a billion-plus Chinese is not an enterprise which one should enter lightly.

World population needs to be decreased by 50%

The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.

Every American president, regardless of party, has said that America has an intense interest in a peaceful resolution. And I think it should be left at that.

To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to show to the world that this sort of method is something that western societies can't stand.

Over time even two armed blind men in a room can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

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

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

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