Henry Kissinger quotes

" There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. " # Crisis

" Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. " # Adversity # Success # Chance

" The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. " # Leaders and Leadership

" The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. " # Marriage

" Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. " # Politicians and Politics # Reputation # Character

" University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. " # Politicians and Politics

" The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. " # Bores and Boredom # Faults # Fame

" Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. " # Moderation # Choice # Virtue

" The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other. " # Tragedies

" The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. " # Absence