Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski; born March 28, 1928) is a Polish-American political scientist and geostrategist, who served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966–68 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977–81. Brzezinski belongs to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 March 1928
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.
I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps.
Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
Let's 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.
To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.