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

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an a... by 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 no... by 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... by 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 pr... by 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... by Henry Kissinger

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

Henry Kissinger

History knows no resting places and no plateaus. by 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. by 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. by Henry Kissinger

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Henry Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a ba... by Henry Kissinger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Henry Kissinger

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too mu... by 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. by Henry Kissinger

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. by Henry Kissinger

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. by Henry Kissinger

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla win... by Henry Kissinger

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Henry Kissinger