Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980.

The reason there IS a Turkey and there ISN'T a Kurdistan is in all of history no Kurd could ever stand by any other Kurd long enough to hold off all the hungry Arabs, Persians, Turks, Brits and other sand carnivores swimming around the Fertile Crescent.

Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.

If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

There are different opinions across the Middle East of Al-Jazeera. They've been kicked out of Egypt and Jordan and then let back in; they've been totally banned from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Syria.

The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.

The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

A lot of Iran's empowerment is a result of the war in Iraq.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

It’s a fact that minds are poisoned throughout the Middle East.

the awakening of the Arab nation, and the effort of the Jews to reconstitute the ancient kingdom of Israel…. These movements are destined to fight each other continually until one of them wins.

Doesn't it seem awfully strange that the Iraqi government we support is an ally of the Iranians who are our declared enemies? Are we not now supporting the Iranians by propping up their allies in Iraq?

The so called “Arab Spring” … is really a situation which is creating more threats so far than positive incentives.

What starts in the Middle East never stays in the Middle East..

Western history shows that the current legitimacy crises in the Middle East is neither unprecedented in its gravity nor likely to resolve itself in any straightforward manner.

One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

Taking stock of 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts. I can only agree.

When we strengthen our relations with the Gulf states, when we cooperate with the Arabs, everybody asks if we are looking for a new geopolitical place. But in the Middle East and the Gulf, you can find German, French and British goods everywhere. German relations to these states are very good, as are English and French relations. Does this make them Arab-oriented?

Syria is Iran's only ally in the Arab world. It's their route to the sea.

You should expect everything. Not necessarily through the government, the governments are not the only player in [Middle East] region.

For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.