Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

The President of the United States was untutored in foreign policy. He didn’t know Slovenia from Slovakia.

In the wake of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy, we see entire portions of the world, particularly the wider Middle East, literally spinning out of control.

I think I'm getting very high marks on foreign policy. I noticed that over the last couple of days.

Many Americans have no idea of what has been the foreign policy of their country. If you don't know about something, you can't understand what is going on.

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

As far as Putin and Russia, I don't say good, bad or indifferent. I don't know the gentleman. I hope we have a fantastic relationship. That's possible and it's also possible that we won't. We will see what happens.

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs.

Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.

Every damn President since I can remember has been so in love with foreign policy that they're just like a schoolboy with a new girl.

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out.

A number of foreign policy experts distanced themselves from Donald Trump, not Michael Flynn.

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

Congress cannot—nor should it—run foreign policy on a day-to-day basis. That is a truism.

World politics is not a kindergarten.

Oh dear. Oh dear. Why do all these old gentlemen feel so confident that they understand foreign affairs.

This President is a miserable failure on foreign policy.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

My dog Millie knows more about foreign affairs than these two bozos.

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.

Foreign policy is important.

As a senator, I play an important role in crafting foreign policy.