"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
— Henry Kissinger

January 1, 1970

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As quoted in The Washington Post (December 23, 1973); he later joked further on this remark, on 10 March 1975 saying to Turkish Foreign Minister Melih Esenbel in Ankara, Turkey: