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Henry Kissinger Quotes

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind amazingly""Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac""Diplomacy: the art of restraining power""To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal""The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer""Here are additional famous quotes by Henry Kissinger:""A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone""The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been""History is the memory of states""Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem""It is not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true""In crises the most daring course is often safest""University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small""No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time""The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it's their fault"