"There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full."

- Henry Kissinger

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."

- Henry Kissinger

"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are, to where they have not been."

- Henry Kissinger

"Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment."

- Henry Kissinger

"The task of the leader is to get their people from where they are to where they have not been."

- Henry Kissinger