“I’ve just recognized that, you know, all people have certain traits.”
“The Jews have certain traits,”. “The Irish have certain — for example, the Irish can’t drink. What you always have to remember with the Irish is they get mean. Virtually every Irish I’ve known gets mean when he drinks. Particularly the real Irish.”
“The Italians, of course, those people course don’t have their heads screwed on tight. They are wonderful people, but,………….”
“The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.”
“My own view is I(talking of Blacks) if you’re talking in terms of 500 years,I think it’s wrong if you’re talking in terms of 50 years. What has to happen is they have be, frankly, inbred. And, you just, that’s the only thing that’s going to do it, Rose.”
Following a friendly visit with Golda Meir, the Israeli prime minister, on March 1, 1973, ” Mr. Kissinger said. “The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.” “I know,” Nixon responded. “We can’t blow up the world because of it.”
“Most Jewish people are insecure. And that’s why they have to prove things.”
“I didn’t notice many Jewish names coming back from Vietnam on any of those lists; I don’t know how the hell they avoid it,” he said, adding: “If you look at the Canadian-Swedish contingent, they were very disproportionately Jewish. The deserters.”