Michael Mandelbaum Quotes

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• The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.
• While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
• American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies,…
• American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United…
• Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as…
• Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more…
• The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict,…
• The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most…
• In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason:…
• To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing…
• Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in…
• Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as…
• The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think ultimately depends upon…
• The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it…
• The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in…
• Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin…

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