Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Conners, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford--but you'll take him anyway.
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
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If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart
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I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War
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A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance.
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Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
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Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.
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You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam
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Deep versed in books and shallow in himself
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president
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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.
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No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus.
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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Power is the great aphrodisiac.
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small
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The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative
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It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true
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If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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