Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

It’s not a dictatorship in the United States. But it is dictatorial to the rest of the world. Who’s going to say no?

We shouldn't discuss the world of tomorrow in terms of becoming a balance to the United States. The real issue is whether the United States will define herself as part of the U.N. system-or not.

But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

Under the George W. Bush Administration…, the United States was generally seen as having the capacity and resolve, to pursue its own agenda in complete disregard of other states’ preferences.

Having excessive power in the hands of one country meant the fate of the world was too dependent on what happened in that one country.

The notion that the U.S. can impose its will unilaterally on the World Bank reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about how multilateral organizations should work.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

Just as the United States doesn't like others to take charge, other countries also don't like the United States to play a dominant role in the United Nations.

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

Unilateralism and isolationism are ideological twins.

You can’t go it alone even if you are the world’s only superpower.

The time has come to recognize that the U.S. will continue to exercise unprecedented power in a world where international rules are still unreliable and where security and advancing of the free democratic order still depend significantly on the possession and use of military might.

Existing great powers are always nervous when there is a new emerging power

Political and security realities have reduced the scope of American unilateralism.

... we Americans know and we observe the differences between world leadership and imperialism.

The U. S. is not the Boss, not the Boss any longer.

It looks like the so-called "winners" of the Cold War are determined to have it all, and reshape the world into a place that could better serve their interests alone.

America has to act. But, when America acts, other nations accuse us of being 'hegemonistic', of engaging in 'unilateralism', of behaving as if we're the only nation on earth that counts. We are.

A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.

Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing.

I'm in favour of a multi-polar world. I believe that every country has the right to defend its own interests.

We have to acknowledge and discuss with citizens that Germany needs to take on more responsibility. One of the questions is, 'Can we keep a functioning international order?'

It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.