Henry Kissinger

"America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War."

"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."

"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time."

"The tragedy of America is that it entered all the wars with a consensus in favor of them, but within a defined period, the legitimacy of the war became a major domestic issue, with some people arguing that withdrawal was the only legitimate objective."

"We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are."

"Diplomacy: the art of restraining power."

"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."

"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."

"Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office."

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

"I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes."

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

"People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any forum that would require me to stop talking for three hours."

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

"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."

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

"You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria."