Great Throughts Treasury

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Henry Kissinger, fully Henry Alfred Kissinger

German-born American Politician, Ambassador, Secretary of State

"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities."

"We will go where the facts lead us."

"We speak to no other country as frankly and openly as we do to you."

"We'll do it in the quickest way possible that is compatible with foreigners and making sure that when the report is finished, there can be no question about the fact that every aspect has been explored, ... Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer."

"We would be prepared, at your request, through whatever sources you wish, to give you whatever information we have about the disposition of Soviet forces,"

"What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system?"

"When you meet the president, you ask yourself, "How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president?""

"Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately."

"When one puts the terrorists on the defensive, that automatically reduces the possibility of their planning new attacks,"

"Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the Cambodians did to each other?"

"Who do I call if I want to call Europe?"

"Wouldn?t have mattered very much. If the Vietnam domino had fallen then, no great loss."

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