Zbigniew Brzezinski Quotes

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

In my grandfather's time, the FN was founded largely as an anti-Communist party.

People have different relationships with power. I suppose a large portion of the 'Homeland' audience aligns with the U.S., sort of against the enemies. We certainly have the CIA viewpoint on the world - and it's their job.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

Politics turns on emotion.

A government of statesmen or of clerks? Of Humbug or of Humdrum?

We are becoming too much of a gaff-centric political culture.

Highly popular and unpopular Presidents do not engage in policy pandering.

Ideology isn’t driving the dynamic in Washington, it’s the desire to stay in power.

When I hear things like 'unpatriotic,' I just chalk it up to a lot of political rhetoric.

I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.

Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

The sense of crisis is everything for Trump - even if it's largely invented. His depiction of darkness justifies his candidacy, the need to violently shake the system. His ability to conjure fear is what distinguished him from all those career pols he has vanquished. And it suits his ego.

I actually think Justin Trudeau's approach to label people who have legitimate concerns with his issues as being un-Canadian and intolerant - that is very dangerous.

If there's one epithet the Right never tires of, it's 'elitism.'

Modi talks about Congress Mukt Bharat. I feel this is a fascist ideology.

Individuals do matter and personalities matter in politics. But if issues are sidestepped due to personalities, then that is very dangerous.