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

The president of the University said that night, congratulations to you the students, you’ve won a great victory, now the war will end. And I’m certain that he believed it that night and I believed it and we went away happy. Four days later, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Two months after that, Kennedy was assassinated. Two months after that, Henry Kissinger emerged from the swamp he was living in at Harvard with a plan to expand the war.

There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon and later on Secretary of State. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in establishing relations between the U.S. and China. At the same time that he was doing that he was also encouraging all sorts of covert actions against Cuba including political assassinations. This contradiction is one that is hard to understand.

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

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?

I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.

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.

Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway.

The neocons are supporting Hillary [Clinton] just like the neoliberals are. She’s seeking the endorsement of Henry Kissinger as well.

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

Pride comes before a fall – although in [Henry Kissinger’s] case it’s more conceit than pride.

Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men lack: he is able to listen and he has a very subtle sense of humour.

There’s a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller’s Good As Gold. He said: ‘Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.’

I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can’t have that in public life.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn’t….out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.