The position is that stability and peace in Asia depend on a cooperative relationship between China and the United States.
Henry A. KissingerOne theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.
Henry A. KissingerThe challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this period before nationalism becomes so dominant in China as a substitute for communism, and a kind of self-righteous isolationism in this country that substitutes China for the Soviet Union.
Henry A. KissingerThere are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane: Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do.
Henry A. Kissinger