Henry A. Kissinger

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

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.