List of quotes from Henry Kissinger
"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
by Henry Kissinger
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
by Henry Kissinger
"History knows no resting places and no plateaus."
by Henry Kissinger
"A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance."
by Henry Kissinger Years of Upheaval
"Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed."
by Henry Kissinger
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
by Henry Kissinger Wilson Library Bulletin
"The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes."
by Henry Kissinger
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
by Henry Kissinger New York Times