Kissinger – Quotes

My father left Nazi

My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story. Eugene Jarecki

If you watch the evening news, Dr. Kissinger is very often brought on to sort of be the statesman of his age and to reflect dispassionately on world events. And so a film challenging his legacy, a film that assesses charges that are quite grave against him, is something that is touchy for the media … Read more

I mean, like a

I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman. Eugene Jarecki

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger’s part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as \”the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other. Edwin Newman

The propaganda system allows

The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers. Edward S. Herman

I\’d like President Bush

I’d like President Bush to think maybe there’s another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam. F. Murray Abraham

A good liar must

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory. Christopher Hitchens

Kissinger projects a strong

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point … Read more

I had real plans

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I’d worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read – if not indeed write – the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger? Christopher … Read more

Henry Kissinger should have

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded. Christopher Hitchens