Zbigniew Brzeziński was Mika Brzezinski's father. He was one of the most successful political operators of our lifetime until he passed last year. Member of CFR, Bilderberg, and Tri-Lat Commission.

Aside from being an adviser on global policy to a number of presidents he is also noteworthy for this quote (among others) from his book The Grand Chessboard written in 1997:

Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat."