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• I have been observing China for more than 30 years and am impressed how logically and wisely it tackles its problems. Obviously the international system could be unbalanced by China's rising power - if we don't prepare ourselves for the new competitive situation, that is. But it is an economic challenge, not aggression on the level of Hitler.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Years, Challenges, Rising

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Easter, War, Egypt

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• Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Ships, Rudders, Security

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• One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, Reality, Order

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• Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Political, Mankind, Depends

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• Even a paranoid can have enemies.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Enemy, Paranoid, Security

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• I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Expression, Permit

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Law, Insanity, President

  Statement at a National Security Council meeting, 1975.

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• Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Cynical, Cathedrals, Built

  "Sketchbook 1966-1971". Book by Max Frisch, p. 230, 1971.

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• I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But she'd put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Support, President, Republican

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Deng Xiaoping thought of himself as a great revolutionary and a great reformer. He had dismantled the Chinese communist management of the economy. In my next-to-last conversation with him, which was about six months before Tiananmen Square, he said to me that his aim would be the next phase to reduce the Communist Party to philosophical issues. And I said, "What's a philosophical issue?" And he said, "Well, like if we make an alliance with Russia." Given his view of Russia, that was not the likeliest thing that would ever happen.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Philosophical, Party, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  West, Revolution, Illusion

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• The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Israel, Moral, Imperatives

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• 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.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  War, President, Principles

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• The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Happens, Written

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• The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Bridges, Vision, Gaps

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• John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Men, Lasts, John Paul Ii

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• Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leader, Politics, Ordinary

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• I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Issues, People

  "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence". Book by John D. Marks and Victor Marchetti, 1974.

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• To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only to end with every weakness disclosed and every error compounding the downfall--that was a fate of biblical proportions. Evidently the Deity would not tolerate the presumption that all can be manipulated; an object lesson of the limits of human presumption was necessary.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Biblical, Fate, Errors

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• Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Should, Happens

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• We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years. In some parts of the world, the nation state, on which the existing international system was based, is either giving up its traditional aspects, like in Europe, or as in the Middle East, where it was never really fully established, it is no longer the defining element. So in those two parts of the world, there is tremendous adjustment in traditional concepts.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Giving Up, Years, Europe

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before nationalism becomes so dominant in China as a substitute for communism, and a kind of self-righteous isolationism in this country that substitutes China for the Soviet Union.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Self, Challenges

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao. I know what China looked like before he took over, and so in my own mind, I don't think of Deng Xiaoping as an oppressor. I think of somebody who, faced with that crisis, made a very painful and decision with which I cannot agree. But I also think of him as a great reformer.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Years, Decision

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Islamic, Cutting

  Source: www.wbur.org

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