Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes - Page 4

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• The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  America, Language, Computer

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.25, Basic Books

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• 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 of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Europe, Important

  "The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". Le Nouvel Observateur Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. January, 1998.

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• The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.

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  Country, War, United States

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• An arc of crisis stretches along the shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation. The resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our values and sympathetic to our adversaries.

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  Ocean, Political, Elements

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• 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 as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity

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  Retirement, Home, Self

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2012). “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.

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  Military, Fall, Empires

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.9, Basic Books

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• I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we will be automatically drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say "you're not going to be making national decisions for us"

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  War, Stupid, Thinking

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• With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Luxury, Self

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.199, Basic Books

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• Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.

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  Our World, Political, Degrees

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• Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems. A major country like the United States has to have a broadly-conceived program for effective international action, influence and cooperation with others.

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  Country, United States, Cooperation

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Stupid, Islam, West

  "The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". Le Nouvel Observateur Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. January, 1998.

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• I can't believe that the Russians really think they're more insecure because Estonia is in NATO. And we don't have forces poised in Estonia to attack Russia.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Believe, Insecure, Thinking

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Dwarves, Sea, Kuwait

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.120, Basic Books

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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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  Eyebrows, Probability

  "The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan". "Le Nouvel Observateur" Interview, www.globalresearch.ca. 15-21 January 1998.

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• Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Breakup, War, Conflict

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• I have no patience for those in the American Jewish community who just go around slandering people as anti-Semites without realizing that what they're doing is really trivializing anti-Semitism.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  People, Community, Realizing

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• 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.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Thinking, Years, America

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• When it comes to Jewish sensitivity, I don't find the proposition compelling that non-Jews have no right to comment. We all have the right to comment about each other. And I object when people say that these comments are motivated by anti-Semitism.

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  People, Motivated, Sensitivity

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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• Shared Sino-American global security goals would not mean that one partner dictates to the other. U.S.-PRC differences will persist, and on the Asian regional level they can even be a source of mutual irritation. Nor should it mean that we ignore the basic differences between our political systems and values.

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  Mean, Goal, Political

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.

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  Country, Thinking, Leader

  "Here’s What Zbigniew Brzezinski Thought of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Iranian Nukes". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2008.

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• Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Political, Risk, Economic

  Source: www.politico.com

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• As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Priorities, Important, Certain

  "Vietnam: A Television History (Legacies)". TV Mini-series, openvault.wgbh.org. July 11, 1983.

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• 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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  Thinking, Chinese, Special

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Today, with America being a beleaguered global power, in part because of its own mistakes, it is absolutely essential that the American democracy refocuses its concerns towards global issues and does not approach its own specific problems on the basis of, to some extend, self-induced fear.

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  Mistake, Self, America

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• The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing with Hezbollah. If the conflict, the theater of conflict enlarges, it's going to become more and more absorbing and more and more costly.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Israel, Iraq, America

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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