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Henry A Kissinger Inspirational Quotes (181)

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Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
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In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
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With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.
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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.
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I grew up in Germany during the Nazi period, and I came to this country when I was 15. And then I had to work in a factory because we had no resources. And I went to night school. So, it was not a rational ambition for me to become a world statesman.
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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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.
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President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.
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Let me make my point about Vietnam. When the Nixon initiation came into office, there were 550,000 Americans in combat. And ending the war was not a question of turning off a television channel. And so, debating on how we got there and what judgments were made was not going to help us.
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No one will ever win the battle of the sexes there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
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A little uncertainty is good for everyone.
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I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.
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U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulation
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This is awful. Do it again.
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World population needs to be decreased by 50%
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
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We have three things in common: Irish wives, the ability to speak for 17 minutes without a verb, and the fact that we both speak with an accent.
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In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.
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With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
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The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.
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I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
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