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" 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. "

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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. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Will

America

" In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option. "

" The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution. "

" We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult. "

" I 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? "

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

" A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system. "

" The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel. "

" America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs. "

" 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. "

" Pakistan's political instability is its greatest vulnerability, and a decline in U.S. power would reduce America's ability to aid Pakistan's consolidation and development. "

" 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. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me. "

" The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Fact

Wishes

" War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities. "

" The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation. "

" If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that? "

" 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. "

" War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions. "

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

" The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance. "

" Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president. "

" Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia. "

" The war of choice in Iraq could never have gained the congressional support it got without the psychological linkage between the shock of 9/11 and the postulated existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. "

" It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. "

" The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable. "

" A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition. "

" You know who's messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that's a very risky position. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Position

Because

" If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world. "

" Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context. "

" There's no point considering something which is very unrealistic. "