Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
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.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
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.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
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.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
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.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
Zbignev Bjesinskiy quotes
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.