Henry Alfred Kissinger Statements, aphorisms, quotes by Henry Alfred Kissinger – 51 total
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
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.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
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