Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.
Henry A. KissingerPeace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.
Henry A. KissingerThe position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.
Henry A. KissingerCountries do not assume burdens because it is fair, only because it is necessary.
Henry A. KissingerThe first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.
Henry A. Kissinger