Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

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Zbigniew Brzezinski

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 28, 1928

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

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It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

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According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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I think we have to pay attention to the Arab masses not just in the Gulf States, but also in the hinterlands.

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

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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.

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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.

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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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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

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Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.

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

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

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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

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