Henry A. Kissinger Quotes - Page 8

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• The China of the 1970s was a communist dictatorship. The China of the twenty-first century is a one-party state without a firm ideological foundation, more similar to Mexico under the PRI than Russia under Stalin. But the measurement of the political and the economic evolution has not yet been completed, and is one of the weak points of the system.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Party, Russia, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I believe it is a mistake to isolate arms control from other areas of policy.

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  Mistake, Believe, Arms

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• NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.

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  Order, Historical, Stones

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• In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

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  Needs, Sides, Partners

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

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Art, Men, Expression

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• Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.

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  Keys, Two, Elements

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad name.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Names, Giving, Politician

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• In the short term, it would not have made it possible to resume relations, because in the Chinese mind, the humiliation of China started with the annexation of Taiwan by Japan. If the United States had suddenly declared Taiwan as a separate state - for which we would have had no support among other nations - the consequences would have been giving up our relationship with China and committing ourselves to a long-term conflict with China.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Giving Up, Japan, Long

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.

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  Survival, Natural, States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

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  Twenties, Percent, Items

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• The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

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  Humorous, Office, Infallible

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• A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

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  Taken, Serious, Bluffs

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• No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

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  Country, War, Eyelashes

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• 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.

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  Believe, Men, Two

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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• I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department.

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  Differences, Doe, Defense

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that's only a tenth of ours. So the possibility of China challenging the United States for the next ten years over the Pacific is next to zero. There could be a conflict between us and China over Taiwan, but I think that, too, will not occur with the proper policies on both sides.

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  Zero, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.

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  Country, Leader, Experts

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• The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

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  Europe, Events, Revolutionary

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• If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

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  Peace, War, Patriotic

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• We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

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  Alliances, Chance, Remember

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• I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

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  I Have Learned, Admission, Grows

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• We have to be careful in negotiating with Iran that we don't create the impression among the Arab states and the Sunni states that we are working on a condominium between Iran and the United States, because that will panic them and drive them into making their own arrangement.

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  Iran, United States, Panic

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.

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  Hobbies, Study, Cases

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• In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense of global foreign policy. Nowadays, on the other hand, there are politicians who represent pretty powerful countries, but whose citizens are not prepared to sacrifice themselves for the state.

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  Country, Powerful, War

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recognize that this affects the American attitude towards their country. But towards what precise institutions will it evolve? I think we ought to leave something to history.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Attitude, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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