Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes
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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.
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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
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Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
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Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
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The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.
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Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.