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Henry A. Kissinger

Henry Alfred Kissinger (/ˈkɪsɪndʒər/; German: [ˈkɪsɪŋɐ]; born Heinz Alfred Kissinger, May 27, 1923) is an American political scientist, diplomat and geopolitical consultant who served as the United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. A Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, he became National Security Advisor in 1969 and United States Secretary of State in 1973. For his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances, with two members of the committee resigning in protest. Kissinger later sought, unsuccessfully, to return the prize after the ceasefire failed.

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Any international system must have two key elements for it to work. One, it has to have a certain equilibrium of power that makes overthrowing the system difficult and costly. Secondly, it has to have a sense of legitimacy.

Difficult, Elements, Key, Keys, Sense, Two

I think China will do nothing to obstruct it, and they probably will go along with it.

China, Obstruct, Probably, Think, Thinking

If you mean by "military victory" an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.

Believe, Country, Government, Military, Running

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Chilean, Country, Issues, People, Voters

Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

Business, Korea, Years, Elements, Invite

I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.

Call, Call Me, Excellency, Protocol, Stand

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.

Care, Career, Careers, Think, Thinking, Years

In relations with many domestically weak countries, a radio transmitter can be a more effective form of pressure than a squadron B-52s.

Countries, Country, Pressure, Radio, Relations

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

American, Foreign Policy, Principles, Seventies, Trauma

History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

Analogies, Generations, Offering, Recipes, Teaches

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

Emergence, Europe, Events, Revolutionary

I believe that without Watergate we would have had an extraordinary period of success with a strong Nixon and a still vital Brezhnev in power.

Believe, Brezhnev, Extraordinary, Nixon, Strong, Success

Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has to remember that it was the first experience. And in a Republican administration, there is a conservative wing that looks at China as the last embodiment of communism, which therefore tends towards a more bellicose rhetoric anyway than I would. It's not the dominant element, but every once in a while they get a crack at public statement.

Anguish, Element, Statement, Way, Wings, Wise

I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense Department.

Defense, Department, Differences, Doe, Emphasis, Say

How to Achieve The New World Order

Order, Nwo, Creepy, World, Achieve

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

Enemy, Funny, Leadership, Love, Sexes, Win

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

Against, Conscious, Nice, People, Thinking, Though

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.

Country, Israel, Process, Side, Sides, Somewhat

President Nixon in his inaugural address indicated that he wanted an era of negotiation. Our reasoning was that whatever our ideological differences, whatever our geopolitical differences, we were condemned to coexistence by nuclear weapons.

Differences, Ideological, Indicated, Nuclear, President, Weapons

China is a one party state. Sooner or later China will get to the point when the new social classes, which have emerged thanks to economic success, will have to be integrated into the political system. There is no guarantee that this process will run smoothly.

Running, Party, Guarantees That, Sooner, Point, Success

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