Henry Kissinger

(born 1923)

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a bit longer. [Select]

{Category: Law and Politics}

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each tends to ascribe to the other side a consistency, foresight and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, even two blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room. [Select]

{Category: War and Peace}

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

{Categories: Success and Failure, Work and Recreation}

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. [Select]

{Category: Law and Politics}

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