Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. Henry Kissinger More Quotes by Henry Kissinger More Quotes From Henry Kissinger Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. Henry Kissinger If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. Henry Kissinger University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Henry Kissinger For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. Henry Kissinger Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. Henry Kissinger 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. Henry Kissinger It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. Henry Kissinger The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. Henry Kissinger Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. Henry Kissinger History knows no resting places and no plateaus. Henry Kissinger If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. Henry Kissinger If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. Henry Kissinger It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. Henry Kissinger Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. Henry Kissinger Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Henry Kissinger Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession. Henry Kissinger Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. Henry Kissinger Power is the great aphrodisiac. Henry Kissinger Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Henry Kissinger The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. Henry Kissinger
