Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes
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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 all have the right to comment about each other.
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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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Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
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One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
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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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Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.
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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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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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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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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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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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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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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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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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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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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.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.