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" We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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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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" Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating. "

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" Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography. "

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" 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. "

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" The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America. "

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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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" America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East. "

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" If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran? "

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" 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? "

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" I was deeply involved in the decision that President Jimmy Carter made to boycott the Olympics in Moscow in 1980. "

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" The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive. "

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" Moderation and bipartisan consensus go hand in hand. "

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" Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal. "

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" I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy. "

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" Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East. "

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" Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly. "

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" Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us? "

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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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" 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. "

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

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" With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers. "

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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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" World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East. "

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" 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. "

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" War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions. "

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