Henry A. Kissinger Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“Power is the great aphrodisiac.”

“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”

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

“It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.”

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

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

“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”

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

“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 for themselves.”