Mika Brzezinski quote: "I consider my girls the greatest gift from God in life. And I also love the career that I have built, lost and rebuilt. But the highs and lows of my career would not have been as exciting or manageable to me if I didn't have children and a partner for life with whom to share it all."

I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed u...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to th...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against ...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my fami...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challeng...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I lear...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

I always start my day with a red-eye misto - two shots, extra hot, extra foam - from Starbucks.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

I don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely ...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

I remember an interview so terrible with CNN's Jon Klein, I nearly blurted out, 'Forget it, ...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more li...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land thei...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageable...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my thro...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

I am up at 3:30, reading the op-ed pages and getting ready to be on the air by 6 A.M. on the set of ...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

The odds are definitely better on getting the right job than getting a good partner for life. Someon...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side e...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

I love tomatoes, and they're so good for you.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then ...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intentio...
MIKA

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in...
MIKA

I'm always calling my doctor because I'm constantly injuring myself while on the road, like ...
MIKA

Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwic...
MIKA

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.
MIKA

As a teenager, in my songbook, I used to script what my lighting would be like. I used to dance in m...
MIKA

Everything I do is very visual and very aural, so I don't read music, and I draw as much as I wr...
MIKA

Melody is disarming. It's anarchic!
MIKA

New York is a bit of a dangerous place to me because you often leave in a blur.
MIKA

In my older songs, I used to hide behind fictional characters to deflect attention away from myself.
MIKA

I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artis...
MIKA

I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist,...
MIKA

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them...
MIKA

They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what peo...
MIKA

Some people say I've got a five-octave range, which is ridiculous. That would mean I'd sing ...
MIKA

I have opinions on everything. I'm a stubborn old mule. The biggest problem is keeping my mouth ...
MIKA

I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world th...
MIKA

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it ...
MIKA

If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I pu...
MIKA

I wish I had more guts when I was younger because then I would've said things to people's fa...
MIKA

Justice, equity and altruism have been the drivers of benign developments in human societies accordi...
MIKA KIVIMAKI

This is definitely our first step in looking at the area of ultra-mobile PCs.
MIKA KRAMMER

Twenty-six thousand cars go through that light.
KEN MIKA

Without realizing what I did I began to dance along the road to Delphi. My feet danced and my arms m...
MIKA WALTERI

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it d...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reali...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious o...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is t...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflic...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they w...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a g...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zo...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innov...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intellige...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American h...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. ...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, ...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?'...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends w...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold W...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulat...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So ...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration,...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the f...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggag...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East an...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

The public has been told repeatedly that terrorism is 'evil,' which it undoubtedly is, and t...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threateni...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try t...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decis...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment ...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

We're going to have a very universal, very catholic with a small 'c' editorial board,
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, partic...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Human affairs require some combination of moral commitment with disciplined political action. And th...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are hig...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs Ame...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global econom...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

If they had them, and they were armed to the teeth with them, why didn't they use them? ... If they ...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Maybe we're better off with him sitting in New York at the U.N. than with him having an important po...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the adminis...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you a...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobiliz...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of ...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identit...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

A policy of simultaneously getting our allies to negotiate with the Iranians for major Iranian conce...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

I think we haven't had a real serious national debate in this country as to what this issue is about...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

I think it is a powerful statement. It raises fundamental issues of morality, trust.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreig...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

If he's going there to grandstand, then I think it's somewhat embarrassing.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

suicidal statecraft...the ultimate cause of imperial collapse.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of ec...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Doing it all by ourselves on our terms, ignoring the rest of the world, shouting loudly that if you'...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The ques...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Given that a more authentic Iraqi political leadership is finally beginning to push aside the earlie...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

I think there is going to be no peace in the Middle East unless the United States steps forward.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Which is more important in world history: The Taliban or the fall of the Soviet Empire? A few over-e...
ZBIGNEW BRZEZINSKI

Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essentia...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday inst...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even ...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was als...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every te...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership o...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clea...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in ...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view...
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

We've done our due diligence and we're comfortable with it.
ROB BRZEZINSKI

Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.
MARK L. MIKA

I consider my girls the greatest gift from God in life. And I also love the career that I have built, lost and rebuilt. But the highs and lows of my career would not have been as exciting or manageable to me if I didn't have children and a partner for life with whom to share it all.

Mika Brzezinski

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