Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

American - Politician March 28, 1928 - May 26, 2017

Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Celebrate, Think, Like

Commitment and credibility go hand in hand. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Commitment, Go, Credibility

Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit from the Middle East's growing wealth. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Wealth, Middle, Regional

Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Education, Innovation, More

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

Here, Became, Very

I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Motivated, Which, Large

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Vietnam War, Now, Vietnam

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

Tell, Against, Them

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

Victory, Costs, Social

You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Been, Portugal, Patriotic

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, Liberation, Some

Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Needs, International Trade

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

Only, We Cannot, Threaten

There's no point considering something which is very unrealistic. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Which, Unrealistic, Very

During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Social, Fought, Stimulated

AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Think, Been, Opposed

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. Zbigniew Brzezinski

United States, Months

Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Emotions, Want, Reason

Pakistan's political instability is its greatest vulnerability, and a decline in U.S. power would reduce America's ability to aid Pakistan's consolidation and development. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Development, Reduce

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Politics, Defer, Dangers

You know who's messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that's a very risky position. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Way, Very, Netanyahu

Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Middle, Which, Iran

The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Defeated, Other, Some

Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East. Zbigniew Brzezinski

United States, Middle

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Think, I Think, Very

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

Bipartisanship, Causes

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