Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

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• 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.
• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
• I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really…
• Today we are in a situation in which the free movement of people can have enormous, monumental dimensions, and I don't think that any country…
• War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow…
• 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…
• Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about…
• The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument…
• The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia…
• Foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating…
• A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.
• In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the…
• One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you…
• Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.
• This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of…
• To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.
• According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan,…
• Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts…
• Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me…
• 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…

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