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Danh ngôn của Henry Kissinger (Sứ mệnh: 1)

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
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.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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.
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
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.
A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing.
Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.
It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.
America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective.
Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.
I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.
The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony.