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

Quote by Henry A Kissinger

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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...

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.

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...

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...

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should...

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should...

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

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

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it...

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started 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...

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...

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a...

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a...

There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the...

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the...

Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost, sometimes unrecognized, but in the end always found with...

Love is sometimes denied, sometimes lost, sometimes unrecognized, but in the end always found with...

I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

No regrets for the time that was lost for it all comes out in the...

No regrets for the time that was lost for it all comes out in the...