Henry Kissinger: “Foreign policy is the art of the possible and the science of the relative”

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.

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

I think we need a strong State Department.

The United States cannot by itself solve every crisis that exists in the world, painful as these crises may be. And one of the philosophical questions that has to be answered is where we engage ourselves beyond moral condemnation and to…