Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes
Some communist countries think that free enterprise will save them the same way that they thought communism would save them.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, U. S. National Security Advisor, Interview, PBS Firing Line, July 30, 1989
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Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist. He served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. As a scholar, Brzezinski belonged to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman. Brzezinski was the primary organizer of The Trilateral Commission.
