America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War. - Henry Kissinger 1 Share Now -
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. - Henry Kissinger 2 Share Now -
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. - Henry Kissinger 3 Share Now -
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. - Henry Kissinger 4 Share Now -
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger 6 Share Now -
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger 7 Share Now -
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. - Henry Kissinger 10 Share Now -
