I've always acted alone. Americans like that immensely.

Interview with Oriana Fallaci (November 1972), as quoted in "Oriana Fallaci and the Art of the Interview" in Vanity Fair (December 2006); Kissinger, as quoted in "Special Section: Chagrined Cowboy" in Time magazine (October 8, 1979) called this "without doubt the single most disastrous conversation I ever had with any member of the press" and claimed that he had probably been misquoted or quoted out of context, but Fallaci later produced the tapes of the interview.