90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.

— Henry Kissinger

A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.

— Henry Kissinger

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

— Henry Kissinger

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 Kissinger

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

— Henry Kissinger

Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution.

— Henry Kissinger

And history teaches this iron law of revolutions: the more extensive the eradication of existing authority, the more its successors must rely on naked power to establish themselves. For, in the end, legitimacy involves an acceptance of authority without compulsion; its absence turns every contest into a test of strength.

— Henry Kissinger

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

— Henry Kissinger

A turbulent history has taught Chinese leaders that not every problem has a solution and that too great an emphasis on total mastery over specific events could upset the harmony of the universe.

— Henry Kissinger

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God

— Henry Kissinger