I do think America has made it quite clear that it is in the interest both of America and China to avoid situations in which they will be pushed toward a collision. Zbigniew Brzezinski Read Quote
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. Zbigniew Brzezinski Read Quote
The war of choice in Iraq could never have gained the congressional support it got without the psychological linkage between the shock of 9/11 and the postulated existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Zbigniew Brzezinski Read Quote
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. Zbigniew Brzezinski Read Quote
One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone. Zbigniew Brzezinski Read Quote
I don’t feel I was ‘born American,’ but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it’s more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me. Zbigniew Brzezinski Read Quote
I’m all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy. Zbigniew Brzezinski Read Quote
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. Zbigniew Brzezinski Read Quote