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"Power without legitimacy tempts tests of strength; legitimacy without power tepmts empty posturing."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"The state is a fragile organization, and the statesman does not have the moral right to risk its survival on ethical restraint."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable"
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"George Bernard Shaw: “There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation—at least in the foreign policy world—depend on context and relevance."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"It's a pity both sides can't lose (commenting on Iran-Iraq war, 1980 – 1988)"
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Woe to the statesman whose arguments for entering a war are not as convincing at its end as they were at the beginning,” Bismarck had cautioned."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Order should not have priority over freedom. But the affirmation of freedom should be elevated from a mood to a strategy."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"For the greatest part of humanity and the longest periods of history, empire has been the typical mode of government."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Realpolitik for Bismarck depended on flexibility and on the ability to exploit every available option without the constraint of ideology."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"When the Chinese court deigned to send envoys abroad, they were not diplomats, but “Heavenly Envoys” from the Celestial Court."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"…Policy is the art of the possible, the science of the relative."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"United States would become the indispensable defender of the order Europe designed."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"The Soviet Union would never be bound by agreements, Deng warned; it understood only the language of countervailing force."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"But Japan drew from the challenge the opposite conclusion as China: it threw open its doors to foreign technology and overhauled its institutions in an attempt to replicate the Western powers’ rise."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"Order without freedom, even if sustained by momentary exaltation, eventually creates its own counterpoise; yet freedom cannot be secured or sustained without a framework of order to keep the peace."
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"For Roosevelt, if a nation was unable or unwilling to act to defend its own interests, it could not expect others to respect them. Inevitably,"
Quote by -Henry Alfred Kissinger
"It should be a no-brainer for the community and the politicians, ... If an owner is willing to pay for his own arena, what else more would you want than that?"
Quote by -Mario Lemieux
"I don't care about the internal political system of the United States. I want to be a friend of United States, of its baseball, its institutions, its rock and roll, its workers, and its technology because we need it. I want to be friends of the Arab people, of the Persian people, of the Asian people."
Quote by -Hugo Chavez
"Ethnic-based politics is being used to exhort people, to serve own ends - this is anathema to concept of nationalism."
Quote by -Imran Khan
"My son had nothing to do with policy or decision making, nor did I discuss the elections or any other matter with him."
Quote by -Indira Gandhi
"The politics of the last twenty years in Britain are liars' politics. The problem is we are ruled by the weak and the small-minded, who are too stupid to know that they are weak and small-minded."
Quote by -Irvine Welsh
"In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps."
Quote by -Italo Calvino
"[ James Comey] was acting in concert and coordination with the House Republicans. End of story. He gave a letter to them. They gave it to FOX News. Also, we have this extraordinary case of the KGB being involved in this race and selectively leaking things from the [Hillary] Clinton campaign that they hacked."
Quote by -James Carville
"I think this an outrage and I think the fact that the KGB is involved in this election [2016] is an outrage and I think the American people ought to take their democracy back regardless of what the press wants to do and the excuses they want to make for [James] Comey. That's what I think."
Quote by -James Carville
"I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical."
Quote by -James Taylor
Yeah, anytime anybody has a kid, you know how you feel when you have a kid, you look at the world differently because your kid's in the world now. When it's just you, whatever happens happens but now you pay more attention to political things. You pay more attention to things because your daughter or your son has to deal with these circumstances.
Quote by -Jamie Foxx
Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
Quote by -Kapil Dev
Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.
Quote by -Lenny Bruce
You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.
Quote by -Lenny Bruce
Today also there is an urge toward social progress, toward tolerance and freedom of thought, toward a larger political unity… But the students at our universities have ceased as completely as their teachers to embody the hopes and ideals of the people.
Quote by -Albert Einstein
I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Quote by -Bill Gates
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Quote by -Bill Gates