342 Quotes by Henry Kissinger

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    I don't ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions.

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    I have spoken to Chinese leaders occasionally on human rights, but I've always done it in private.

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    The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.

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    It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

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    There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.

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    I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

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    Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.

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    Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.

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    Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

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