Henry A. Kissinger Quotes About Politics
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.
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I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.
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Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.
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If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
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Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.
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Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries
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I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.
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Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.
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Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.
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