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States Quotes by Michael Mandelbaum
- Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
- The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur