Quote

I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

Henry A. Kissinger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry A. Kissinger
Isolate
Areas
Arms
Policy
Control
Mistake
Believe

More quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

Image
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Whenever a new president comes in, people that are used to the previous president wonder if he has the same capacity.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
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.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their contemporaries' experience and imagination. They achieve recognition only when their vision has been turned into experience - in short, when it is too late to benefit from their foresight.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
If you control the oil you control the country if you control food, you control the population.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
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.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.
Henry A. Kissinger