Zbigniew Brzezinski Zitate auf Englisch

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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

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

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

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Look: I don't want to live with a nuclear Iran. I would like to make it uncomfortable for them to seek it.

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Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.

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

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During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age.

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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

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The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.

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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.

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

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Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

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During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism.

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

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

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

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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.

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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.

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The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.

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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.

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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?

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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 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.

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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.

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AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.

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I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated.

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Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.

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