69 Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes for You to Enjoy

Zbigniew Brzezinski

American Politician

Born: Mar 28, 1928

Died: May 26, 2017

America Important Political Think War World

Related authors: Alexander Hamilton Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Benjamin Franklin Bernie Sanders John F. Kerry Nancy Pelosi Robert Kennedy Shirley Chisholm

Commitment and credibility go hand in hand. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Commitment Go Hand Hand-In-Hand Credibility

The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill. Zbigniew Brzezinski

War Political First Own Our Extremely Brutality Had Between First One False Iraq Did Lack Difference Different Against Region Them Bush Us Sentiments Skill Interests Premises Appealed Second Basis

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Extremes Compromises Causes Avoid Helps Cooperate Bipartisanship

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Today Word Relatively Only Countries Nominal Sovereign Sovereignty Any Often Meaning Really Used Specific Number

AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Healthy Congress Think Intimidated Consistently Members Solution Opposed Been Lot

If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that? Zbigniew Brzezinski

War Time World See More Prospect Iran Iraq End Up Than Role America Same Afghanistan Same Time Anyone Pakistan Damaging

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Power Worldwide Historic American Zenith

Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content. Zbigniew Brzezinski

War World Focus Cold Cold War Gave Relatively Define High Moral Easy Objectives Both Could Clear Involvement Policy Content Foreign Affairs Foreign Policy Were America Subsequent World Affairs World War World War II

Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Terrorism Political Isolated Context Historical Cannot Social Even

During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Reality Cause Men Sacrifice Nationalism Nineteenth Nineteenth Century New Rendered Altar Died Republicanism Century Much Believing Royalty

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Relationship Disagree Those We Cannot Threaten Only Condemn Dictate Cannot Who

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Peace Genocide Russia Imperial Part Baggage Journalists Mass Mass Media Policy Repress Cannot Against Media Larger Bring Zone

Rushing to war is not a wise course of action. Zbigniew Brzezinski

War Wise Action Rushing Course

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Future Past Enormous Must Caution Full Inherently Lessons Applied

Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory. Zbigniew Brzezinski

History Given Deliberately Velocity Accelerate Begin Trajectory Next Should Phase

America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs. Zbigniew Brzezinski

War Victory Cold Cold War Costs Without America Social Painful

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Old Seek Divide New Fictitious Should Europe Cooperate

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised. Zbigniew Brzezinski

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Enemy Enemies Terrorists Ask Who Need

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Failure History Intelligence Dramatic Months States Significant Unprecedented Perhaps Most Demonstration The History Of Experienced United United States Actually Recent

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Increased Intervene Would Russians Push Knowingly Probability

To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Peace Build Increase Stable International Inner Zone Core

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Terrorism Increasingly Settlements Colonial Brutal Support New Policy Condemned Yes Wall Repression Translated Really Should Palestinian Rejected

Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

No more Zbigniew Brzezinski quotes