American - Politician | March 28, 1928 - May 26, 2017
I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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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.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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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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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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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.
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.
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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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