Henry A. Kissinger
Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.Collection: Money
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.Collection: Peace
Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World GovernmentCollection: Fear
World population needs to be decreased by 50%Collection: Ebola
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 countriesCollection: Country
The elderly are useless eaters.Collection: Elderly
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.Collection: Freedom
To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatalCollection: America
Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.Collection: People
The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government, a New World Order.Collection: Men
[The New World Order] cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component. Yes, there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change it's perceptions.Collection: World Government
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.Collection: Friendship
Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.Collection: Oil
In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.Collection: Israel
U.S. policy toward the third world should be one of depopulationCollection: World
Let us fashion together a new world order.Collection: Fashion
An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power.Collection: Experts
I am against portraying China as the demon of the global community. China has grasped more quickly than other countries what globalization means and what it demands. The country has learned how to use other people's innovations for itself. India, incidentally, is not far behind China in this respect. Both are not nations in the European sense, but rather cultural communities with enormous markets. The challenge of the future is to work out how to deal with that.Collection: Country
Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized. So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.Collection: Civilization
The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fenceCollection: Enemy
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.Collection: Believe
An Iranian moderate is one who has run out of ammunition.Collection: Running
In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense of global foreign policy. Nowadays, on the other hand, there are politicians who represent pretty powerful countries, but whose citizens are not prepared to sacrifice themselves for the state.Collection: Country
America has made it very clear in several administrations that if there is an attack by China on Taiwan, the United States is very likely to resist.Collection: America
When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don't try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them.Collection: Understanding
Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.Collection: Iraq
Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited.Collection: Believe
Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recognize that this affects the American attitude towards their country. But towards what precise institutions will it evolve? I think we ought to leave something to history.Collection: Country
Nixon had three goals: to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history; to be remembered as a peacemaker; and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession.Collection: Dream
The defining issue is that the government in Taiwan was considered to be the government of all of China, and the authorities in Beijing were not recognized as a government of China. So Taiwan was the residuary for all of China.Collection: Government
History is the memory of States.Collection: Memories
[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.Collection: Moving
For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down.Collection: Soul
Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.Collection: Creativity
The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.Collection: Chinese
What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who saw China as I did in 1971 - and for that matter even in 1979, because not much had changed between 1971 and 1979 - and sees China today, knows one is in a different economic system.Collection: Years
Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.Collection: Home
In a nuclear war, even if one side were to come out ahead by systems analytical standards, both sides would be so weakened, that it would - they would be in the position of Europe after the two World Wars.Collection: War
A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it is perpetually outcast, will seem oppressive to its members, whatever the legal pretensions.Collection: Majority
Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn't just social segregation; this was the beginning of the extermination of the Jews. That's why my family left Germany in 1938.Collection: Team
One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.Collection: Progress
The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance.Collection: Struggle
I would say the special experience of American wartime policy in the last 40 years, from Vietnam on, is that the war itself became controversial in the country and that the most important thing we need in the current situation is, whatever disagreements there may be on tactics, that the legitimacy of the war itself does not become a subject of controversy. We have to start with the assumption, obviously, that whatever administration is conducting a war wants to end it.Collection: Country
Certainly nothing is easier than to rewrite history. If we had made Taiwan a separate state, it would have led to a fundamental conflict with China, and probably to war. Certainly in the long term, it would have led to war.Collection: War
I have great respect for the Taiwanese. They have done an extraordinary job. But it was not a sustainable position to say that the legitimate government of China resides in Taiwan, which at that time didn't have much contact with the mainland.Collection: Jobs
Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party.Collection: Party
Almost every peace process that has gone on between the Arab side and Israel, the United States has been somewhat isolated because most of the countries in the world, what they really want is to accept the Arab peace plan or so-called peace plan, which in its present form would lead to the destruction of Israel.Collection: Country
I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.Collection: People
Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.Collection: Commitment
To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.Collection: Fighting