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It’s a pity that both of them can’t lose.
—Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger established his reputation as a foreign policy expert with the publication of Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy in 1957—an unrelenting critique of Eisenhower’s New Look strategy.34
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
When Henry Kissinger became President Nixon’s national security adviser, he made sure that communication about foreign policy issues flowed only through him.
Jeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
Henry Kissinger is known for the rather menacing aphorism, “who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control continents; who controls money can control the world.”
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
The first is to preserve their society by manipulating circumstances rather than being overwhelmed by them. Such leaders will embrace change and progress, while ensuring that their society retains its basic sense of itself through the evolutions they encourage within it. The second is to temper vision with wariness, entertaining a sense of limits.
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