World Quotes by Zbigniew Brzezinski

America is the number one superpower today in the world.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

It certainly would be possible for America to redefine its role in the world, especially if, in the short run, America is…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

We cannot leap into world government through one quick step… The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by…

— 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

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

If a new president personalizes a rather different concept of America and a different sense of America's mission in the world than…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and…

— 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

The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view…

— 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

America is the only superpower. But our leadership is being tested in the Middle East, and some of the things that we…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Iraq may have been a preview of that, but it's still redeemable if we get out fast. In a war with Iran,…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most…

— 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

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The political awakening that is happening worldwide is a major challenge for America, because it means that the world is much more…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man's universal vision... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty...…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski