Henry Kissinger

“If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.”

“There is obviously a gap between the public's perception of the role of U.S. foreign policy and the elite's perception.”

“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.”

“I have not endorsed Trump and will not do so.”

“Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.”

“I think when the president of the United States calls for military action, he should do it for a united people, especially when the methods have been so cruel, so explicitly directed at Amer...”

“It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.”

“The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.”

“The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.”

“America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide...”

“The Trump phenomenon is in large part a reaction of Middle America to attacks on its values by intellectual and academic communities. There are other reasons, but this is a significant one.”

“We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition...”

“While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.”

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.”

“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”