Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Quote by Henry A Kissinger

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Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.

Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if...

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if...

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would...

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would...

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

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

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

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with...

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with...

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their...

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their...

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create...

High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create...

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that...

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that...

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it...

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it...

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist...

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist...

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but...

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but...

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid...

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid...

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment...

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment...

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.