Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotations

Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.

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

One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly.

I have no patience for those in the American Jewish community who just go around slandering people as anti-Semites without realizing that what they're doing is really trivializing anti-Semitism.

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

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

I think [President George W. Bush] contributed very directly to the fact that the status of America as the world's only superpower lasted for 20 years at most.

When it comes to Jewish sensitivity, I don't find the proposition compelling that non-Jews have no right to comment. We all have the right to comment about each other. And I object when people say that these comments are motivated by anti-Semitism.

As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash.

The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders.