Henry Kissinger

foreign policy is the art of the possible and the science of the relative

If one negotiates a freeze of the existing situation, one has thereby legitimized a Korean military capability.

For us, the problem is hegemony by any one country over Eurasia is a potential threat to our security.

America's initiatives and its integrative approach will spell the difference between stability and calamity.

When there is no flexibility and a contest occurs, we have to be aware of the fact that it would have catastrophic consequences for the world.

Senator McCain has preserved the honor of our country as a great warrior but also as someone who wherever the weak were threatened and the judged were persecuted, he made it clear that America was on their side and that he was not simply a…

My basic point is that we can maintain a favorable balance of power, but we must couple it with a political structure in which the issue of war and peace can be used as a diplomatic as well as a military expression.

I cannot conceive of a war between China and the United States.

What is occurring is more than a coincidence of individual crises across various geographies. Rather, it is a systemic failure of world order.

One cannot accept the notion that Russia has a right to alter the shape of the Ukraine by its own unilateral position.

The concern I had with the Iranian agreement was that it legitimized the eventual emergence of Iran as a nuclear power.