Henry A. Kissinger

“The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.”

“Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”

“A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.”

“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”

“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”

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

“Even a paranoid can have enemies.”

“If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.”

“History knows no resting places and no plateaus.”

“There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”

“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”

“History is the memory of states.”

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

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.”

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

“Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself.”