Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let’s cooperate.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIBipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let’s cooperate.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIPeople, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKII 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?
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIThe United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they’re deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIIn the longer run, I happen to think that Russia really has no choice but to become gradually more associated with the Euro-Atlantic community. Because if it isn’t, then it’s going to find itself essentially facing China all by itself, facing the Euro-Atlantic community all by itself.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIHenceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America’s status as a global power.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIThough Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKILook at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKII happen to think that as the Ukraine moves to the West, towards the E.U., eventually towards NATO, it will pave the way also for Russia moving towards the West. Because it will become a logical extension of the same process, and it will eliminate any imperial ambitions.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIFor people of different faiths to coexist, it’s going to take maturity, wisdom, and patience. All of which come, eventually, with tolerance. And it’s a process of time.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIMarxism 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 BRZEZINSKIBut if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKISoon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKII was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIUkraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKIIn Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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