He never said it

This is the big one, as punctured by Gideon Rachman:

Whenever European leaders want to justify the drive for ever-closer
union in foreign policy, they quote Henry Kissinger’s famous remark -
“Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?”. The comment is meant to
epitomise Europe’s failure to get its act together on the world stage.
The hope in Brussels is that if the Lisbon Treaty goes through, the
Americans will finally get that single number to dial; it will be the
new EU foreign secretary for Hillary Clinton, and new EU president for
Obama.

The Kissinger “who do I call” remark was trotted out at almost every
seminar I ever went to Brussels. So I’m delighted to add it to the list
of “famous sayings that were never said”.

Reginald Dale of the Center for Strategic and International Studies
in Washington (and before that of The Financial Times) has written to
me to say: “Kissinger never made the famous remark about Europe’s
telephone number. According to the late Peter Rodman, who knew him
well, the saying is apocryphal, and in fact Kissinger’s concern was the
precise opposite - he was fed up with having to deal with a Dane whom
he regarded as incompetent and ineffective, who was trying to represent
the whole of the EU as President of the Council. Kissinger himself has
disowned the remark, and it seems that he was actually seeking to
divide and rule in Europe, rather than be restricted to a single voice
on the telephone.”