All Michael Mandelbaum Quotes
- 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. Architecture
- The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles. Believe
- People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must, Change
- 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… Book
- 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… All
- 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… All
- The world needs a strong America. America
- All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides. All
- American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world. All
- Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome. Ancient
- Great wars can only be fought by great powers. Fought
- Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States. All
- One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak. America
- The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire. America
- The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy. American
- The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it. Advantage
- The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes. Becomes
- The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries. 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. Altruistic
- The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped. America