Henry A. Kissinger Quotes

We've weakened America's place in the world. It's been a combination of factors, but mostly a lack of leadership.

After flirting with neoisolationism, the U.S. is now deciding it wants to run the world.

The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.

Americans tend to see U.S. primacy as beneficial to both their country and the rest of the world.

Those who say that America has to dominate the world, and that you either have to control everything or go home, don't understand the way power is projected.

The only things that matter in the world are Japan and China, Russia and Europe. Latin America doesn’t matter…. And … there’s nothing you can do about the Middle East.

Our Nation can be strong abroad only if it is strong at home. And we know that the best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

Staggering poverty and crippling inequality at hole do not necessarily prevent countries from trying to project their power abroad.

It is difficult for an American of today to realize that less than twenty-five years ago the United States was not taken seriously as a world power.

As long as Americans believe that their country has vital interests everywhere on earth, they will behave the same.

Who does he think the fucking superpower is?

We've just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they're dealing with a strong American president.

I've been saying for the last nine years, our power comes as much from - our respect in the world comes as much from the exercise of our power as it does from the power of our principles.

The United States is the single greatest force for good in the world

Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power - not just a trading bloc, but a political entity?

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

What I'm interested in is Britain projecting itself abroad, and through that its values and the things it holds dear. And I don't think you do that by refusing to talk to the world's second-largest economy [China]. In fact, that is positively counter-productive in my view.

He [Vladimir Putin] will not be able to push Donald Trump around the world. Believe me.

The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.

Indeed, often because of the size and weight in the world of our neighbor, we in Canada often define ourselves in contrast to American positions on things like Cuba, the Vietnam War and nuclear disarmament. Historically, Canada has not always been aligned with the United States. It doesn't necessarily serve anyone's interests - Canadian or American - to be seen as an extension of the United States.

[Vladimir Putin] complimented him. That led Donald Trump to then compliment Vladimir Putin and to defend Vladimir Putin's actions in a number of places around the world.

In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.

The Americans have a very active presence and policy in every single part of the world and if we broke with them, we would lose any possibility of influencing them. They would go in for global unilateralism, and the world would be a more dangerous place.

The world is a more tragic and dangerous place when American isn't leading and, under this president, we have not been leading.

Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany