Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

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

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

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

World population needs to be decreased by 50%

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

This country cannot afford to tear itself apart on a partisan basis on issues so vital to our national security.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order.

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

To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

How to Achieve The New World Order

The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.

In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.

The elderly are useless eaters.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.

NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

The Israelis want security. The Arabs want dignity. And they consider the demands of each other as incompatible.

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

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

Let us fashion together a new world order.

The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.

Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?

Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met? and I mean that as a compliment.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.

You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

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