Countries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.
Henry A. KissingerMost high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered.
Henry A. KissingerSome of the critics viewed Vietnam as a morality play in which the wicked must be punished before the final curtain and where any attempt to salvage self-respect from the outcome compounded the wrong. I viewed it as a genuine tragedy. No one had a monopoly on anguish.
Henry A. KissingerPeople think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of impotence.
Henry A. Kissinger