Quotes by Zbigniew Brzezinski

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.

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

Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.

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.

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

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

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?

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.