Henry Kissinger
Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
No one will ever win the battle of the sexes, because there is too much fraternizing with the enemy.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
History knows no resting places and no plateaus.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
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.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.