American power Quote by Michael Mandelbaum

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

— Michael Mandelbaum

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

— 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. But that…

— 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, as well…

— Michael Mandelbaum

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

— 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 nor control.…

— 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, even those…

— 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 September 11,…

— Michael Mandelbaum