Henry Kissinger
"Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing."
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"Everybody has a hacking capability. And probably every intelligence service is hacking in the territory of other countries. But who exactly does what? That would be a very sensitive piece of information. But it's very difficult to communicate about it. Because nobody wants to admit the scope of what they're doing."
"لكلٍّ قدرة على الاختراق، وربما كل جهاز استخباراتي يخترق أراضي الدول الأخرى. لكن من يفعل ماذا بالضبط؟ تلك معلومة بالغة الحساسية، ويصعب جداً التحدث عنها، لأنه لا أحد يرغب في الاعتراف بمدى ما يقوم به."
Henry Kissinger
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."
"الميزة اللطيفة في كونك شخصية مشهورة هي أنك إذا أضجرت الناس، ظنوا أن العيب فيهم."
Henry Kissinger
"The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it."
"لقد فرضت حرب فيتنام علينا أن نُعلي المصلحة الوطنية على المبادئ المجردة. وما حاول الرئيس نيكسون وأنا فعله كان منافياً للفطرة، ولهذا لم نفلح."
Henry Kissinger
"America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War."
"خاضت أمريكا خمس حروب منذ عام 1945، ولم تحقق أهدافها إلا في واحدة منها، وهي حرب الخليج."
Henry Kissinger
"The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened."
"لقد كانت حرب فيتنام مأساة عظيمة لوطننا. والآن، وقد ابتعدت بما يكفي، يمكن للمرء أن يدرسها دون الحاجة إلى الشعارات ليرى ما حدث حقاً."
Henry Kissinger
"The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony."
"إن موقف الغرب وروسيا تجاه أزمة مثل أوكرانيا مختلف تماماً. فالغرب يسعى إلى ترسيخ شرعية أي حدود قائمة، بينما ترى روسيا أن أوكرانيا جزء من التراث الروسي."
Henry Kissinger
"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."
Henry Kissinger
"A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose."
Henry Kissinger
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it's their fault."
Henry Kissinger
"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."
Henry Kissinger
"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other whom he assumes to have perfect vision."
Henry Kissinger
"The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer."
Henry Kissinger
"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac."
Henry Kissinger
"90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation."
Henry Kissinger
"The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other who he assumes to have perfect vision."
Henry Kissinger
"I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency it will be okay."
Henry Kissinger
"Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often in point of fact useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either."
Henry Kissinger
"The history of things that didn't happen has never been written."
Henry Kissinger
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
Henry Kissinger
"Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault."
Henry Kissinger
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