Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski
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“Doing it all by ourselves on our terms, ignoring the rest of the world, shouting loudly that if you're not with us, you are against us, is not going to be a very successful policy,”
Zbigniew Brzezinski
“suicidal statecraft...the ultimate cause of imperial collapse.”
“If he's going there to grandstand, then I think it's somewhat embarrassing.”
“There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.”
“I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.”
“We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.”
“We're going to have a very universal, very catholic with a small 'c' editorial board,”
“I think there is going to be no peace in the Middle East unless the United States steps forward.”
“I think it is a powerful statement. It raises fundamental issues of morality, trust.”
“If they had them, and they were armed to the teeth with them, why didn't they use them? ... If they didn't use them and hid them, that means they were deterred. And how do you hide all of these hundreds and hundreds of weapons with which they're armed?”