Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

"The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution."

"Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate."

"Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand."

"Rushing to war is not a wise course of action."

"Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating."

"Commitment and credibility go hand in hand."

"Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences."

"I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy."

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

"We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree."

"Hard power makes sense under some circumstances. But there's not a universal solution to global problems."

"Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?"

"Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context."

"The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America."

"We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy."

"Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential."

"I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy."

"Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal."

"America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs."

"The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair."

"The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers."

"Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states."

"All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia."

"It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked."

"We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old."