Zbigniew Brzezinski quotes - page 3

The world's energy consumption is bound to vastly increase over the next two or three decades. Estimates by the U. S. Department of Energy anticipate that world demand will rise by more than 50 percent between 1993 and 2015, with the most significant increase in consumption occurring in the Far East. 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)
It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. View quote
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. View quote
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Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom. View quote
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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. View quote
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Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences. View quote
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. View quote
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. View quote
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists. View quote
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The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders. View quote
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone. (Zbigniew Brzezinski)
Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire. View quote
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We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course. View quote
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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? View quote
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Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity. View quote
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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. View quote
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I felt strongly that in the U.S.-Soviet competition the appeal of America as a free society could become an important asset, and I saw in human rights an opportunity to put the Soviet Union ideologically on the defensive....by actively pursuing this' commitment we could mobilize far greater global support and focus global attention on the glaring internal weaknesses of the Soviet system. View quote
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Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, [historian] Richard Pipes and many other American politicians... are frozen... with unchanging blindness and stubbornness they keep repeating... this theory about the supposed age-old aggressiveness of Russia, without taking into consideration today's reality. View quote
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