Henry A. Kissinger Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

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

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fighting, Army, Winning

  "The Vietnam Negotiations". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 214, January 1969.

• We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, War, Army

  "The Vietnam Negotiations". Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 214, January 1969.

• To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fighting, Reality, Overcoming

• I don't think we should pay people to fight terrorism. I would be amazed if they asked for anything in return.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Well, he keeps saying that, and as defense secretary, of course he has to think of a lot of potential enemies. I do not think it's a wise course to articulate this or to base our policy on it. And I do not see under modern circumstances what we would be fighting about.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wise, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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