Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.
Henry A. KissingerCommittees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.
Henry A. KissingerWe're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years. In some parts of the world, the nation state, on which the existing international system was based, is either giving up its traditional aspects, like in Europe, or as in the Middle East, where it was never really fully established, it is no longer the defining element. So in those two parts of the world, there is tremendous adjustment in traditional concepts.
Henry A. Kissinger