- Narrator: In a September meeting Kissinger shared his views on Chile's democratic election: "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people."
- Narrator: In January 1973, Kissinger signed a peace accord with North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho. The terms of peace were almost identical to the terms the Johnson administration had nearly secured before the election of 1968.
- Christopher Hitchens: Half the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial are incised in stone for dates after January 1969. There is enough marble in Washington to put all the names on one wall. We wouldn't dare trying to put up a wall that had the names of all the Vietnamese who died in that period.
- Christopher Hitchens: The statement "Henry Kissinger is a war criminal" is a statement I've been making for many years. It's not a piece of rhetoric, not a metaphor. It's a job description.
- Geoffrey Roberston: The important thing before people die, or go senile like Pinochet, is to punish them, to provide retribution for the victims in the sense that they haven't or their relatives haven't died in vain, and to provide a deterrent to make dictators, tyrants, cruel people, be they generals or national security advisers, now think that if they take the wrong course and abuse their power, they may be held to and may be punished at some time in the future.
- Daniel Davidson: As Kissinger is supposed to have said, and I don't know if he ever did, that our goal is to have a decent interval between the withdrawal of American forces and the rape of the first virgin.