Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance.
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
The war of choice in Iraq could never have gained the congressional support it got without the psychological linkage between the shock of 9/11 and the postulated existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even give rise to a particularly ominous phenomenon: the emergence, as a major issue in nationalistically aroused Mexican politics, of territorial claims justified by history and ignited by cross-border incidents.
There may be circumstances in which damaging our relationship with countries over human rights is counterproductive and the benefits to human rights may be very small because of our limited capacity to enforce our stance. That was the dilemma the United States faced after Tiananmen Square.
There's no point considering something which is very unrealistic.
There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
We all have the right to comment about each other.
We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy.
We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.
We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
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28 March, 1928
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26 May, 2017
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