The American formal position ...

The American formal position has been that we oppose violence by governments against their people. That principle should not be abandoned.
 Henry A. Kissinger

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We are all the President's men.
 Henry A. Kissinger
In the 1960s, I would have considered China with its CPC an ideologically more dynamic country than the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union was strategically more threatening.
 Henry A. Kissinger
We are not just any nation.
 Henry A. Kissinger
A return to the 1967 lines and the abandonment of the settlements near Jerusalem would be such a psychological trauma for Israel as to endanger its survival.
 Henry A. Kissinger
The Gorbachev period is conceived as an abandonment of historic Russian positions. So this is the framework, in my view, in which Putin operates.
 Henry A. Kissinger