Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

Even allies don’t share every single interest that you have. That’s a law of nature in the international system. They will tell you most of what you need to know but there may be some things that they don’t tell you that you need to know in order to formulate your policy as wisely as you can.

I think that America's recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

It's important that all around the globe that the United States is pursuing the most effective foreign policy possible.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on both a global and regional basis.

Attempts to settle crises by unilateral sanctions outside the framework of U.N. Security Council decisions threaten international peace and stability. Such attempts are counterproductive and contradict the norms and principles of international law.

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

In critical ways, Obama has reversed not just Bush policy but every president's approach to the world since the Second World War, save for that of his soulmate Jimmy Carter.

Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world.

Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

America has saved the world most of the time, but messed it up a couple of times.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Multilateralism may be little more than a polite way of camouflaging what is in practice unilateralism with allies.