Henry A. Kissinger Quotes
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Kissinger, Henry. White House Years. Little, Brown and Company, 1979.
This seemingly abstruse philosophical statement actually found its way into one of the major political debates of the 21st Century when the Secretary of Defense was defending the management of the Iraq War and the interpretation of intelligence. See {586062}.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
He had been asked how to solve the housing problem of the Great Recession. Rarely do major public figures admit ignorance on a major issue. Even if they have no specific solutions, they provide general platitudes and further describe the solution. If they are politicians, they then tend to blame the opposition for the existence of the problem.
Henry Alfred Kissinger KCMG is an American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. A Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, he became National Security Advisor in 1969 and U.S. Secretary of State in 1973. For his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances, with two members of the committee resigning in protest.
