Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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• Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • History

• When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • End

• Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Good
  • War

• 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Long
  • War
  • Happy

• What strategic benefit would accrue from having Montenegro as an ally that would justify the risk of our having to go to war should some neighbor breach Montenegro's borders?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • War
  • Risk
  • Neighbor

• There is a clear interest within ISIS to drag Israel into a war with them. If they do so, they will be able to paint Israel as having an alliance with the states fighting against them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Israel

• I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Tired
  • Weakness
  • Boils

• I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • Peace
  • Admit

• For fitness, I've just bought a watch which keeps a track of how many calories I burn, what's my heart rate, which is very fascinating.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Heart
  • Fitness
  • Burn

• I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

  

  Manute Bol
  • War
  • Never
  • Gone

• The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American reality is the reinvention of itself, whatever is found in any way irreducible or unassimilable is not American.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • American
  • War
  • Reality

• When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • World
  • Business
  • War

• Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Night
  • Woman
  • Cold

• It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • War
  • True
  • Never

• I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • War
  • Cold
  • Intensity

• In the arms of the angel,Fly away from here.From this dark cold hotel room,And the endlessness you feel.You are pulled from the wreckageOf your silent reverie.You're in the arms of the angel;May you find some comfort here.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • May
  • Dark
  • Cold

• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • True
  • Mother
  • Future

• One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Success
  • Freedom

• I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

  

  Stanley Robert Vinton
  • Truth
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• There should be no real difficulty in condemning Nazis, white supremacists, and the Ku Klux Klan. They are, for God's sake, Nazis and white supremacists. This should not require moral courage. This is obvious. This is the moral equivalent of the text you type to prove you're not a robot.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • God
  • Real
  • Moral

• We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Cold