Power is the great aphrodisiac.

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  University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

• Henry Kissinger:

  No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

• Henry Kissinger:

  No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

• Henry Kissinger:

  No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds

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  High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not c

• Henry Kissinger:

  The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

• Henry Kissinger:

  The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

• Henry Kissinger:

  If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from ca

• Henry Kissinger:

  You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.

• Henry Kissinger:

  Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.