Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

American Politician
Born: March 28, 1928

The United States can certainly defeat North Vietnam, but the United States cannot defeat a guerrilla war which is being raged from a sanctuary through a pattern of penetration, intervention, evasion, which is very difficult for a technologically advanced country like the United States to combat.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man's universal vision... The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty... More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I think [President George W. Bush] contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower lasted for 20 years at most.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

When it comes to Jewish sensitivity, I don't find the proposition compelling that non-Jews have no right to comment. We all have the right to comment about each other. And I object when people say that these comments are motivated by anti-Semitism.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

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

Zbigniew Brzezinski

I have no patience for those in the American Jewish community who just go around slandering people as anti-Semites without realizing that what they're doing is really trivializing anti-Semitism.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

Zbigniew Brzezinski

For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia... Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Lets cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.

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The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details. It will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.

Zbigniew Brzezinski