Michael Mandelbaum

Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security…

— Michael Mandelbaum

In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a…

— Michael Mandelbaum

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

— Michael Mandelbaum

In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings.…

— Michael Mandelbaum

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing,…

— Michael Mandelbaum

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the…

— Michael Mandelbaum

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

— Michael Mandelbaum

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand…

— Michael Mandelbaum

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

— Michael Mandelbaum

The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries,…

— Michael Mandelbaum

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

— Michael Mandelbaum

In the past, a blow to the international system's strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of…

— Michael Mandelbaum

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world.…

— Michael Mandelbaum

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United…

— Michael Mandelbaum

The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the…

— Michael Mandelbaum

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

— Michael Mandelbaum

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing…

— Michael Mandelbaum

The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly…

— Michael Mandelbaum

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must,

— Michael Mandelbaum

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

— Michael Mandelbaum

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

— Michael Mandelbaum

The world needs a strong America.

— Michael Mandelbaum

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating…

— Michael Mandelbaum

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall…

— Michael Mandelbaum

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

— Michael Mandelbaum