Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

I happen to think that as the Ukraine moves to the West, towards the E.U., eventually towards NATO, it will pave the way also for Russia moving towards the West. Because it will become a logical extension of the same process, and it will eliminate any imperial ambitions.

The only thing that is worse than dealing with Pakistan is the neglect of doing so.

It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.

Using the Japan-U.S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South Korea, and Russia.

In the event that we don't want to lose the Far East and Siberia, we need a united Europe.

Russia will have much greater respect for America when I'm leading than when other people have led it. You will see that. Russia will respect our country more.

Russia and China are very natural partners. We are neighbors with an immense common border.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and China are more likely to view each other as competitors if not adversaries. But the die has not been cast. The best possible outcome is a new understanding that when they cannot cooperate, they will coexist and allow all countries in the Pacific to grow and thrive.

So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

That is one of the reasons why we advocate for good relations between the two countries. Turkey understands the needs of the region.

No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.

What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.

Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?

Foreign policy is consumed with momentary crises —– often created by failing states and violent groups. But in the long run, he future is shaped by winners, not noisy losers.

I don’t think America wants democracies in the Middle East. They wouldn’t be nearly as friendly to us

The United States has better relations with the countries of Asia than any of them have with each other.

The Middle East does not follow Las Vegas rules. Whatever happens in the Middle East affects the rest of the world.