There’s a need for a New World Order, but it has different characteristics in different parts of the world. Henry Kissinger
The Vietnam War required us to emphasise 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. Henry Kissinger
Today Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by their world government. Henry Kissinger
We are all the president’s men. Henry Kissinger
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if it does not win. The North Vietnamese used their armed forces the way a bull-fighter uses his cape – to keep us lunging in areas of marginal political importance. Henry Kissinger, Foreign Affairs 48:2 1969
Who controls money controls the world. Henry Kissinger, Council on Foreign Relations
That this man could operate at such a horrible level and not get exposed for year after year after year after year. How many people came out against him? He is an embarrassment to my profession. I got to tell you, the dark side of Henry Kissinger is very dark. Seymour Hersh, author The Price of Power
I don’t think Henry was interested in sex. He didn’t have time for it. Power for him may have been the aphrodisiac but it was also the climax. Former girlfriend of Henry Kissinger
A very studious individual. Almost fearfully so. I can see him in the law library hunched over a book, seldom even looking up. He never smiled. Even on Saturday nights he was in the library studying. Fellow student at Duke University Law School
Suharto [Indonesian President]: I would like to speak to you, Mr President, about another problem. Timor ... We want your understanding if we deem it necessary to take rapid or drastic action.
Gerald Ford: We will understand and we will not press you on this issue. We understand the problem you have and the intentions you have ...
Kissinger: You appreciate that the use of US-made arms could cause problems?
Kissinger: On the Timor thing, that will leak in three months and it will come out that Kissinger overruled his pristine bureaucrats and violated the law. How many people … know about this?
Staff Member: Three.
Kissinger: Plus everybody in this meeting ... Everything on paper will be used against me.
I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience. Noam Chomsky
Henry Kissinger: There are more than enough tortured and mutilated corpses, more than enough widows and orphans, and more than enough misery and starvation to testify to his contribution … Kissinger explained – if we cannot manage Central America it will be impossible to convince threatened nations in the Persian Gulf and other places that we know how to manage the global equilibrium. Noam Chomsky, lecture MIT December 2009, ‘History of US Rule in Latin America’
Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on September 11th. He’s a liar. He’s an apologist for corrupt regimes. Timothy Noah
The Neo-Conservatives were going to have to defeat one of the most powerful men in the world: Henry Kissinger … What drove Kissinger was a ruthless pragmatic vision of power in the world … Kissinger wanted the country to give up its ideological battles … ‘a truly global society’. Adam Curtis, The Power of Nightmares I: Baby It’s Cold Outside, BBC 2004
They allied themselves with two right-wingers in the new administration of Gerard Ford: one was Donald Rumsfeld, the new secretary of defence, the other was Dick Cheney, the president’s chief of staff. ibid.
This dramatic battle between good and evil was precisely the kind of myth Strauss had taught his students would be necessary to rescue the country from moral decay. It might not be true but it was necessary. ibid.
1975: There was a confrontation between two powerful men in Damascus, the capital of Syria. One was Henry Kissinger, the US Secretary of State. The other was the president of Syria, Hafez al-Assad. Adam Curtis, Hypernormalisation, BBC 2016
President Assad dominated Syria. The country was full of giant images and statues that glorified him. He was brutal and ruthless, killing or imprisoning anyone he suspected of being a threat. ibid.
He [Kissinger] set out to do the very opposite: to fracture the power of the Arab countries by dividing them and breaking their alliances so they would keep each other in check … In reality, the Palestinians were ignored. ibid.
His version of the New World Order is very much on its face one that is ruled by and for the interests of a very select few in the name of global order and security. The Corbett Report, 106: Meet Henry Kissinger, James Corbett online 2009
First came the grant from the Rockefellers … Henry was ushered into that repository of power and prestige the elusive, secretive Council on Foreign Relations. ibid.
‘Henry [Kissinger] became Nelson’s foreign policy adviser.’ The Corbett Report: The Unauthorised Biography of David Rockefeller, Youtube 2017
Kissinger was revealed to be secretly advising Bush throughout the Iraq war. ibid.
Between March 1969 and May 1970 over 3,000 raids were flown across the Cambodian frontier … hundreds of thousands of civilians lost their lives. Secrets of War s1e58: Cold War: Nixon’s Secrets
On March 16th 1978 Italy’s former prime minister Aldo Moro was kidnapped in a sophisticated military-style operation. His three bodyguards were killed during the assault. The attacks were blamed on the Red Brigades, a militant communist group. Moro had been attempting to create a power-sharing arrangement by which the Italian Community Party (PCI) would be allowed to participate in operations of government with the Christian Democrats. His compromise was fiercely opposed by the United States. According to Moro’s widow, he was told at a meeting with Henry Kissinger, ‘You must abandon your policy of bringing all the political forces in your country into direct collaboration … or you will pay dearly for it. Moro was murdered shortly after his kidnapping. Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations s1e3: The Strategy of Tension, 2013
‘Our concern relates above all to Cuba’s export of revolution.’ Castro vs The World I: The Armed Struggle, BBC 2020, Kissinger
By the end of 1975 Cuba was sent 7,000 troops to Angola. Kissinger’s negotiators were outraged. ibid.
As the talks continued, Castro launched a huge surge in Cuban troops, sending another 20,000 soldiers to Angola. Castro took some of his most sophisticated Soviet-supplied anti-aircraft systems, ear-marked to defend Cuba, and sent them to Angola. ibid.
There is a major risk of severe damage to world economic, political, and ecological systems and, as these systems begin to fail, to our humanitarian values. The urban slum dwellers (though apparently not recent migrants) may serve as a volatile, violent force which threatens political stability. In international relations, population factors are crucial in, and often determinants of, violent conflicts in developing areas. There is no single approach which will solve the population problem. The complex social and economic factors involved call for a comprehensive strategy ... At the same time actions and programs must be tailored to specific countries and groups. National Security Memo NSSM 200 Implication of Worldwide Population Growth for US Security and Overseas Interests 10th December 1974, co-author Henry Kissinger
Saturday will be the 100th birthday of Henry Kissinger … A damning new investigation by The Intercept on the US’ bombing of Cambodia that killed as many as 150,000 civilians that Kissinger authorised during the US war in Vietnam. Kissinger at 100: New War Crimes, Democracy Now 2023