"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." ― Henry A. Kissinger Topic(s): Politics More From Henry A. 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." "No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none." "Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor." More In Politics "It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics."― Susan George "A lot of young poets today, from what I’ve heard and experienced, can’t get their heads past George W. Bush, and I’ve heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I’m kind of bored by it."― Amber Tamblyn "Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I’d already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy."― Jack Kemp