27 quotes
American politician and diplomat (1923–2023)
“It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.”
"Diplomacy: the art of restraining power."
on Diplomacy
"Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy."
on Humor
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
on Leadership
"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God"
"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."
on Success
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
on Politics
"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."
on Art
"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."
on Wisdom
"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."
"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."
"Power is the great aphrodisiac."
on Power
"Americans have a tendency to believe that when there's a problem there must be a solution."
on Problem Solving
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."
"A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose."
on War
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it's their fault."
"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."
"The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer."
on Truth
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
