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" It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Security
Interest
Challenge
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" 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
Innovation
Power
Education
" 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
History
Important
World
" The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Own
Skill
War
" The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Feel
Uncomfortable
Good
" The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Potential
Real
Conflict
" I don't approve of the notion that we should be announcing who should step down from the position of a head of a state unless we are seriously prepared to remove that person. But if we are not, if we are being prudent and careful, then let's also be careful with how we talk. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Step
Down
Who
" Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Age
War
Self-Defeating
" Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Historical
Social
Terrorism
" Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
View
Yes
More
" 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. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Support
Policy
Yes
" The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Through
Change
Future
" American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Historic
Zenith
Power
" The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Values
Relationship
Nature
" Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And that is what keeps me intrigued and challenged and wanting to influence events. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Me
Political
Influence
" Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Causes
Avoid
Bipartisanship
" The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Lessons
Caution
Must
" We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
World
Age
Difficult
" 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
Tell
Bureaucracy
Paris
" I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security? "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Men
Defense
Need
" We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Giving
Now
War
" To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Well
Credit
Done
" As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
America
Peaceful
Create
" The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Link
Europe
Us
" I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Large
Campaign
Motivated
" Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Asset
Some
Well-Being
" Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Democracy
Democrats
Human
" Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Like
Uncomfortable
Want
" If the United States and China can accommodate each other on a broad range of issues, the prospects for stability in Asia will be greatly increased. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Stability
Will
United States
" Commitment and credibility go hand in hand. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Credibility
Hand
Commitment
" 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. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
War
Government
Conflict