"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."
He served as America's top diplomat and national security adviser during the Nixon and Ford administrations.
In a statement, Kissinger Associates, a political consulting firm he founded, said the German-born former diplomat died at his home in Connecticut.
During his decades long career, Mr Kissinger played a key, and sometimes controversial, role in US foreign and security policy.
After earning bachelor's, master's, and PhD degrees, he taught international relations at Harvard.
In 1969, then-President Richard Nixon appointed him National Security Adviser, a position which gave him enormous influence over US foreign policy in two administrations.
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I would never celebrate someone's personal tragedy. But I do observe that some foul souls are so malignant that a room feels brighter and more cheerful when they walk out. And when I wake on the morrow, if it should seem the sun shines more brightly than it did yesterday, I will indeed celebrate the change in the weather.