Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

As usual, the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

You don’t have a democracy. Most Americans want good relations with Cuba, but a few thousand Cuban-American right-wingers control U.S. policy and make everything between us bad.

There are plenty who think a union should not speak out, fight for or criticize the foreign policy of our government; that it should be a matter of our government, right or wrong, in matters of foreign policy. We have never adhered to that belief. And we shouldn’t.

[George W.] Bush is the only force of evil in the world that liberals haven’t wanted to appease.

The current attitude is pretty much the attitude we had in the CIA during the 1950s. When we analysed the operational climate and all the political forces in any given country, we had our friends and we had our enemies. There was no one in between. The friends were centre and Right wing social democrats, conservatives, liberals, in some cases all the way over to neo-fascists. The enemies were Left wing social democrats, socialists, Communists, all the way to those advocating armed struggle.

In taking a very sober view of where this president is taking this country, the divisions, the catering to our adversaries, the undermining of national security interests, that I am absolutely a never-Trumper.

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

I've decided to cut out the part of the speech where I say anything nice about Democrats.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

You will never see President Bachmann step one toe out of the United States and apologize for this country.

Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

A quarter-century after the end of the Vietnam War, and eleven years after the collapse of the Berlin wall, it has become commonplace to say that we Americans have no consensus on foreign policy. Across the political spectrum, left or right, most Americans still cling to whatever assumptions they held during our long journey through the Cold War.

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

From 2002 to the end of his presidency, George W. Bush routinely was accused by the Left of 'creating chaos:' chaos in Iraq, chaos in Afghanistan, chaos in the Muslim world, chaos among our allies.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would except that it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Foreign policy - dealing as it does with the most charged political subjects of all, the safety and dignity of the nation - will always be political terrain particularly vulnerable to distortion and demagoguery.

I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

The policy of freedom for Eastern Europe was for domestic purposes only for an America that did not want to face its limited power in the world.

European intellectuals and Islamic radicals are in a kind of dark alliance to portray the United States as negatively as possible.

There is a lot of juggling between NATO commitment and domestic politics in most countries [belonging to NATO.]

The policy of the United States does not flow from transitory considerations.