“Whether Kissinger gave this speech or not, it’s exactly how the power elite really thinks.”
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Quotes from Henry Kissinger
O “It’s not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.” – H.K.
O “It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination.” – H.K.
O “Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of mineral from abroad, especially from less developed countries.” – H.K.
O “The elderly are useless eaters.” – H.K.
O “World population needs to be decreased by 50%.” – H.K.
O “Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in zionist foreign policy.” – H.K.
O “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.” – H.K.
O “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.” – H.K.
O “To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” – H.K.
O “Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.” – H.K.
O “Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.” – H.K.
O “I don’t read books, I write them.” – H.K.
O “I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.” – H.K.
O “Now when I bore people, they think it’s their fault.” – H.K.
O “I don’t stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.” – H.K. O “The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.” – H.K.
O “There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you’re anxious to meet people who do.” – H.K.
O “Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.” – H.K. O “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.” – H.K.
O “The one thing man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by a World Government, a Nww World Order.” – H.K.
O “NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order.” – H.K.
O “NAFTA represents the single most creative step towards a New World Order.” – H.K.
O “Let us fashion together a New World Order.” – H.K.
O “How to Achieve The New World Order.” – H.K.
O “War rids the world of a large number of useless eaters… War creates the chaos out of which the New World Order will be established. But you must understand, war is not the ultimate goal. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” – H.K.
O ”You become a superpower by being strong but also by being wise and by being farsighted. But no state is strong or wise enough to create a world order alone.” – H.K.
O “The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.” – H.K.
O “United States would become the indispensable defender of the order Europe designed.” – H.K.
O “Our nation is uniquely endowed to play a creative and decisive role in the new order which is taking form around us.” – H.K.
O “Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.” – H.K. O “A little uncertainty is good for everyone.” – H.K.
O “The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.” – H.K. O “If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.” – H.K.
O “What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system.” – H.K.
O “The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence.” – H.K.
O “A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.” – H.K.
O “The art of good foreign policy is to understand and to take into consideration the values of a society, to realize them at the outer limit of the possible.” – H.K.
O “Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.” – H.K.
O “Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.” – H.K.
O “Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.” – H.K.
O ”Access to natural resources can become a question of survival for many states.” – H.K.
O “In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.” – H.K.
O “The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.” – H.K.
O “Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met? and I mean that as a compliment.” – H.K.
O “I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W. Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W. Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy.” – H.K.
O “At any rate, mutually assured destruction was never our policy.” – H.K.
O “A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.” – H.K.
O “Jews were segregated from 1933 on. We could only play against other Jewish teams. This wasn’t just social segregation; this was the beginning of the extermination of the Jews. That’s why my family left Germany in 1938.” – H.K.
O “With proper tactics, nuclear war need not be as destructive as it appears.” – H.K.
O “You should not go to war for the privilege of withdrawal. You need to define your objective and the outcome, and it cannot be the removal of one man.” – H.K.
O “The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.” – H.K.
O ”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.” – H.K.
O ”In the period after the Second World War, there were still leaders in Europe who represented weak countries, but possessed a sense of global foreign policy. Nowadays, on the other hand, there are politicians who represent pretty powerful countries, but whose citizens are not prepared to sacrifice themselves for the state.” – H.K.
O ”I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it’s the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.” – H.K.
O ”Our greatest foreign policy problem is our divisions at home. Our greatest foreign policy need is national cohesion and a return to the awareness that in foreign policy we are all engaged in a common national endeavor.” – H.K.
O ”The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.” – H.K.
O ”The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.” – H.K.
O ”The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony. A Russian state was created around Kiev about 1,200 years ago. Ukraine itself has been part of Russia for 500 years, and I would say most Russians consider it part of Russian patrimony. The ideal solution would be to have a Ukraine like Finland or Austria that can be a bridge between these two rather than an outpost.” – H.K.
O “The task of the leader is to get people from where they are to where they have not been.” – H.K.
O “There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.” – H.K.
O ”The Chinese military budget today is officially listed as, I think, about $15 billion. But even if you double it, that’s only a tenth of ours. So the possibility of China challenging the United States for the next ten years over the Pacific is next to zero. There could be a conflict between us and China over Taiwan, but I think that, too, will not occur with the proper policies on both sides.” – H.K.
O ”I don’t consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it’s my view.” – H.K.
O ”I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she’d be a good president. But she’d put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.” – H.K.
O ”Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven’t seen.” – H.K.
O ”Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.” – H.K.
O ”Iraq has to be made an international, and not just a national American problem.” – H.K.
O ”From a geo-strategic point of view, I consider Iran a bigger problem than the Islamic State. ISIS is a group of adventurers with a very aggressive ideology. But they have to conquer more and more territory before they can became a geo strategic, permanent reality. I think a conflict with ISIS – important as it is – is more manageable than a confrontation with Iran.” – H.K.
O ”Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but states like Iraq, like Iran, and to some extent Syria, having made it possible for some of these groups to operate. So it is a very difficult situation.” – H.K.
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