Mika Brzezinski Quotes

My family was always active, and our thing was family walks. Not walks around the block, but more like eight-mile hikes up mountains. ~ Mika Brzezinski

In short Donald Trump lies compulsively in large part because of who and what he is - a coward. This is why Mike Brzezinski said recently, "He brings nothing to the table. ~ Gizmo, The Puzzled Puppy

Why don't these companies making big profits just pay people better than $14 an hour? It's kind of simple. When you're making record profits, why not? I don't get it. ~ Mika Brzezinski

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth. ~ Mika Brzezinski

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid. ~ Mika Brzezinski

I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows. ~ Mika Brzezinski

We have to stop judging people who are struggling with their weight. ~ Mika Brzezinski

On 'Morning Joe' I can say what I think, be my sometimes unorthodox self, have fun, yet be serious as well. ~ Mika Brzezinski

After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy. ~ Mika Brzezinski

For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around as I'm trying to cook my husband something special. ~ Mika Brzezinski

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon. ~ Mika Brzezinski

At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business. ~ 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 family's relationship with each other. ~ Mika Brzezinski

I am not afraid to say my relationship with my man is important, even vital, to who I am as a person. ~ Mika Brzezinski

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods. ~ Mika Brzezinski

Don't apologize for asking for what you deserve. ~ Mika Brzezinski

I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer. ~ Mika Brzezinski

Meanwhile, I have been reminded that weight is about a lot more than dress size and how I look. My weight was stealing my life from me, piece by piece. Refocusing on health, instead of size and looks, has helped me recognize that I have to make a commitment for the long haul. That's the only way. Dieting does not work. I know, you've read that before, but it's really true. I should know, because that's what I've done all my life. I dieted my way up to weighing 256 pounds. No more. This time I am remaking my life. ~ Mika Brzezinski

Women play into each other's weaknesses. ~ Mika Brzezinski

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.' ~ Mika Brzezinski

My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking. ~ Mika Brzezinski

I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage. ~ Mika Brzezinski

For many women, going back to work a few months after having a baby is overwhelming and unmanageable. As strange as it may seem, things get even more difficult for a working mom after the second and third baby arrive. By that time, the romance of being a modern 'superwoman' wears off and reality sets in. ~ Mika Brzezinski

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

If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing. ~ Mika Brzezinski

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski should be herded into a rocket and shot into space for their brown-nosing of Trump A ~ Matt Taibbi

Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man? ~ Mika Brzezinski

These days, I am the most boring, methodical runner. I always do the same three- to five-mile loop near my home every evening. I hardly ever miss a day. On the weekends, I might go longer or add in weights. ~ Mika Brzezinski

There's always more money to be made. ~ Mika Brzezinski

I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price. ~ Mika Brzezinski

Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself. ~ Mika Brzezinski

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it. ~ Mika Brzezinski

Don't make your journey through life harder by placing rules on yourself like, 'I can't get married till I get promoted to your dream job.' ~ Mika Brzezinski

I desperately miss my girls when I am working, and I often feel guilty, but also feel the journey I am on is for them too. When I am on my 16th hour of a day and can barely keep my eyes open, they drive me forward. ~ 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 'Morning Joe,' and after three hours of TV and two hours on the radio, it is only 12 noon. ~ Mika Brzezinski

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

I lack trust in others. ~ Mika.

The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a great many of them and justifying this on the grounds that they are being the objects of terrorism, which is true. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both ... Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

I am totally unapologetic about pop music. ~ Mika.

Technology will make available to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised ... techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

We all have to be dishes on a plate eventually, with the way we are marketed, but I have no intention of being a cheap Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet. ~ Mika.

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

One has to define very clearly what one's objectives are, determine in advance how much one is prepared to pay to achieve that objective and then act accordingly. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad! ~ Mika.

Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible. ~ Mika.

I am very suspicious of people. ~ Mika.

To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers. ~ Mika.

At 2:26 AM on 3 June 1980, Colonel William Odom of the Strategic Air Command alerted National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski that the US nuclear warning system had detected an imminent 220-missile nuclear attack on the US. Shortly thereafter, the automated system revised its projection from 220 missiles to an all-out attack of 2200 missiles. Just before Brzezinski was about to wake up President Carter to authorize a counterattack, he was told that the 'attack' was an illusion caused by 'a computer error in the system'. ~ Stansfield Turner

It's wrong to compare the times when I was with sensei and when I'm with you because I'm dealing with two completely different people, and it'd be weird if I had the same kind of feelings for both of you. ~ Mika Yamamori

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

I've never, ever labeled myself. ~ Mika.

The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the "American dream"-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

At the age of 30, you should already know yourself and what you want from life! ~ Mika.

Well, I have to say, most of my clothes are designed and made by my mother. ~ Mika.

No matter what I did, I was hurting someone. There was a constant battle of emotions going on inside my head, but even though I still cared about Tom all I wanted, all I needed, was Mika. ~ Shanice Williams

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety? ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

Yeah, Mel! If she shoves you again, smack her in the face!" bellowed Mika.
Kira glared at Mika.
"I mean, beat her in the race! ~ Katie Mattie

I found school pretty tough. I got the mickey taken out of me at school. ~ Mika.

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist. ~ Mika.

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

I don't think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we will be automatically drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say "you're not going to be making national decisions for us" ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world. ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski

Your lingering cigarette smell makes me feel more empty. ~ Mika Yamamori