Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession. -- Henry Kissinger
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. -- Henry Kissinger
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. -- Henry Kissinger
No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. -- Henry Kissinger