If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.
Henry A. KissingerWho controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.
Henry A. KissingerChina has had a long and complex history and has managed to evolve its own culture for 4,000 years. It therefore not necessarily true that we know exactly what is best for the internal structure of China.
Henry A. KissingerThe position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.
Henry A. KissingerThey [American forces] are there as an expression of the American national interest to prevent the Iranian combination of imperialism and fundamentalist ideology from dominating a region on which the energy supplies of the industrial democracies depend.
Henry A. KissingerSuperstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values.
Henry A. Kissinger