Henry A. Kissinger
Henry A. Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissingeris an American diplomat and political scientist. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as United States Secretary of State in the administrations of presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. For his actions negotiating the ceasefire in Vietnam, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances, with two members of the committee resigning in protest. Kissinger later sought, unsuccessfully, to return the prize. After his term, his advice has been sought by world leaders...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth27 May 1923
CountryGermany
This is awful. Do it again.
Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.
Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.
In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power.
The capacity to admire others is not my most fully developed trait.
There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.
I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.
It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.
Who controls money controls the world.
NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.
I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.
China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.