I think it is essential that America does not stumble into a stupid war with Iran. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Pakistan's political instability is its greatest vulnerability, and a decline in U.S. power would reduce America's ability to aid Pakistan's consolidation and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I think President George W. Bush contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“The ongoing changes in the distribution of global power and mounting global strife make it all the more imperative that America not… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even give rise to a particularly ominous phenomenon:… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Let's address the issue of how America deals with the Iraqis and how we deal with the region, recognize the fact that… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The president has to project to the American people a sense of demanding idealism. Idealism which is not based in self-indulgence, but… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
America is the only superpower. But our leadership is being tested in the Middle East, and some of the things that we… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I do think America has made it quite clear that it is in the interest both of America and China to avoid… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The Israelis have taken a lot of security measures which reduce significantly the ability of Iran to inflict truly severe pain in… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
America is now the only global superpower, and Eurasia is the globe's central arena. Hence, what happens to the distribution of power… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
In the longer run, I happen to think that Russia really has no choice but to become gradually more associated with the Euro-Atlantic community.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out for more… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share
