Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

United States, Geopolitician
March 28, 1928 – May, 26, 2017.

Zbigniew Kazimierz "Zbig" Brzezinski (; Polish: [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf kaˈʑimʲɛʐ bʐɛˈʑiɲskʲi] ( listen); March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017) was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. Brzezinski belonged to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman.

Also known as Political Scientist, Politician, Educationalist, University Teacher, Author, Strategist, Critic

I think President George W. Bush contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower lasted for 20 years at most.

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- World
- Thinking
- America
One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.

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- Exercise

It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.

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- Political
- Powerful
There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.

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- Life
- Poverty
It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the global community has unhindered financial and economic access to it.

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- Power
- America
- Help
The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

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- Leader
- Unity
- Principles
I think the sheer attrition of American global domination will create circumstances in which the Chinese will be tempted to reach out for more influence, including in regions in which we have special interests, such as the Middle East, from which they already obtain a great deal of their energy. And that region will be seeking some new superpower patron.

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- Great
- Thinking
- American
I think the United States is currently a kind of wonder - wonderland with the president Trump speaking on subjects of his choice, some of which are entertaining, but none of which are very strategically substantive.

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- Wonder
- Trump