Quote

In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

Henry A. Kissinger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry A. Kissinger
Study
Studying
Interest
Foreign
Decades
Happens
Spent
Case
Cases
Hobby
Policy
Hobbies
Particular
Consuming

More quotes by Henry A. Kissinger

Image
In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Diplomats operate through deadlock, which is the way by which two sides can test each other's determination. Even if they have egos for it few heads of government have the time to resolve stalemates, their meetings are too short and the demands of protocol too heavy.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
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.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
Henry A. Kissinger
Image
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.
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