319 Quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

The elderly are useless eaters.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around for thousands of years even before America existed. It could even be that China's growing power will allow itself to be slowed down. But as long as this immense empire doesn't fall apart, it will become an important factor in global politics.

The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

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