Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes About Foreign Policy

Quotes about: Foreign Policy

• Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, Ignorance, Intelligent

  "Spokespersons of US Right 'In Most Cases Stunningly Ignorant'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. December 06, 2010.

• 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.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Views, Vision

• Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Fashion, America, Issues

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (1998). “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives”, p.211, Basic Books

• Foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the framework for formulating policies based on moderation and on the recognition of the complexity of the human condition. That has been the tradition since the days of Truman and Vandenberg all the way until recent times.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mean, Democracy, United States

  Address to the New American Strategies Conference, October 28, 2003.

• We look a little bit disorderly, indecisive, leaderless. That's a real problem, and that's a problem that concerns me particularly on foreign affairs. The presidency, not just President Obama, but the presidency in recent years has lost some of the terrain that they used to dominate in the making of foreign policy. I think President Obama has to make a serious effort to regain it because he lost some of it himself.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Real, Thinking, Years

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

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Feel Good, Tangible, Justified

  "The World According to Zbig". Interview with Charles Gati, www.politico.com. November 27, 2013.

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