{"author":"Henry Kissinger","author_id":"Henry+Kissinger","total_quotes":58,"quotes":[{"text":"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.","author":"Henry Kissinger","tags":["leader","responsibility "],"id":17395,"author_id":"Henry+Kissinger"},{"text":"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.","author":"Henry Kissinger","tags":["power"],"id":18916,"author_id":"Henry+Kissinger"},{"text":"In every era, humanity produces demonic individuals and seductive ideas of repression. The task of statesmanship is to prevent their rise to power and sustain an international order capable of deterring them if they do achieve it.","author":"Henry Kissinger","tags":["politics"],"id":25885,"author_id":"Henry+Kissinger"},{"text":"Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.","author":"Henry Kissinger","tags":["common-sense","peace","soldier","war"],"id":32212,"author_id":"Henry+Kissinger"},{"text":"America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.","author":"Henry Kissinger","tags":["america","five","objectives "],"id":62880,"author_id":"Henry+Kissinger"},{"text":"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.","author":"Henry Kissinger","tags":["side"],"id":67764,"author_id":"Henry+Kissinger"},{"text":"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.","author":"Henry Kissinger","tags":["people","think","nice "],"id":73826,"author_id":"Henry+Kissinger"},{"text":"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ","author":"Henry Kissinger","tags":["leadership"],"id":91133,"author_id":"Henry+Kissinger"},{"text":"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.","author":"Henry Kissinger","tags":["leader","people","where "],"id":99758,"author_id":"Henry+Kissinger"},{"text":"A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if it does not lose.","author":"Henry Kissinger","tags":["war"],"id":99988,"author_id":"Henry+Kissinger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}