319 Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

What China would do, I cannot predict. China has all but given up the claim to the use of force, except in the circumstance of Taiwan declaring its independence. That is a huge step forward over what the situation was many years ago.

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

One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.

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.

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one.

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

We believe that peace is at hand.

The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.

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.