Quotes from Zbigniew Brzezinski

The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.

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

I'm all in favour of grand important speeches, but the president then has to link his sermons to a strategy.

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?

Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.

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.

Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

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

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

The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.

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

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

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.

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.

It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have, probably, the [lower the] risk of causalities.

The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.

It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.

I never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...