Michael Mandelbaum Quotes

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• If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
• The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
• People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must,
• In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as…
• After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting…
• First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a…
• The world needs a strong America.
• All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.
• American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
• Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
• Great wars can only be fought by great powers.
• Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
• One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.
• The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
• The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.
• The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.
• The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.
• The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.
• The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
• The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

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