Country Quotes by Zbigniew Brzezinski

The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders. When we lay off, more and more Iranians…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems. A major country like the United…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Once the Eastern Bloc collapsed, what I call 'historical spontaneity' prevailed and the countries that were subject to Soviet control naturally gravitated…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Today we are in a situation in which the free movement of people can have enormous, monumental dimensions, and I don't think…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski