Henry A. Kissinger

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

#consequences #leaders #opinion #opinion polls #polls

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

— Henry A. Kissinger

#because #bleeding #disclosed #end #fact

In crises the most daring course is often safest. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#crises #daring #most #often #safest

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#alternatives #clears #marvelously #mind

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#blessed #horizon #just #nations #never

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. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#born #carried #chance #few #foreign

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#confines #experience #himself #his #leader

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#after #expert #familiar #leader #operate

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#great #invoke #leaders #must #vision

People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#amazed #any #form #generally #hours