Henry Kissinger

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Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat, political scientist, geopolitical consultant, and politician who served as the United States secretary of state and national security advisor in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1969 and 1977.

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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

—Henry Kissinger

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

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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

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

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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

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

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

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Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.

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

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