People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.
Henry Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Henry Kissinger
Vietnam presumably taught us that the United States could not serve as the world's policeman; it should also have taught us the dangers of trying to be the world's midwife to democracy when the birth is scheduled to take place under conditions of guerrilla war.
Henry Kissinger
The vietnam war required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
Henry Kissinger
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
Henry Kissinger
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
Henry Kissinger