Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

War is the usual condition of Europe.

We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.

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

We must engage with China to try and put as much pressure on North Korea as possible.

Any claim between the U.S. and Iran, any conflict is bad for Iraq.

We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

I wouldn't go to war over Ukraine.

I fully understand the One-China policy. But I don't know why we have to be bound by a One-China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade.

I think [Bush] would like to hand his father Saddam Hussein's head and win his approval for what happened after the Gulf War.

Since we became Buddhist, we have lived in peace with them. We did not invade them. We did not want them to invade us. We have never declared war on China.

I think it's very important to follow the lead of the South Koreans and the Chinese and not back North Korea even further into a corner, because that's when they'll be dangerous.

As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.

With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not think of launching a pre-emptive attack because it would set the whole Middle East and the whole world on fire for who knows how many decades.

We can't make China a friend, but we can behave to make them an enemy.

The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.