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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

Henry A. Kissinger

Israel

Security

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

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry A. Kissinger

Leader

People

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

Henry A. Kissinger

Peace

War

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry A. Kissinger

Crisis

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

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

Henry A. Kissinger

Politics

University

We are all the President's men.

Henry A. Kissinger

Men

President

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Henry A. Kissinger

Principles

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.