24+ Henry Kissinger Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Henry Kissinger quotes and sayings.

Top 10 Henry Kissinger Quotes

1. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
2. For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
3. There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
4. Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
5. If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
6. The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
7. If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
8. Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
9. The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
10. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Henry Kissinger Short Quotes

• Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.
• Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
• Even a paranoid can have enemies.
• Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
• If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
• I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
• The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
• The essence of this man Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.
• We are all the President's men.

Henry Kissinger Famous Quotes And Sayings

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. — Henry Kissinger

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. — Henry Kissinger

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. — Henry Kissinger

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. — Henry Kissinger

The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations. — Henry Kissinger