Michael Mandelbaum Quotes

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• One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Strong, America, World

  Michael Mandelbaum (2010). “The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era”, p.194, PublicAffairs

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• People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  People, Should

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• Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  United States, Tasks, Firsts

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• The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Real, War, World

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• While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Analogies, Assumption, Mislead

  "The Great Game Then and Now". Address to the Conference on Oil and Gas in the Caspian Sea Region: Geopolitical and Regional Security, March 12, 1998.

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• 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 keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Europe, People, Goal

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• 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

  Government, United States, Doe

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• 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 God-given right - at least in democracies.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Government, Democracy, World

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• 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 States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Play, United States, Roles

  Michael Mandelbaum (2010). “The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era”, p.53, PublicAffairs

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• 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 a funny one, on comedy shows.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Book, Hearing, Serious

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• The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  America, Doe, Empires

  "The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era by Michael Mandelbaum" by George Walden, www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2010.

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• 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 it to a map by which we can navigate.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Real, Past, Historical

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• The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Government

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• All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Loss, Matter, Gains

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• The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Determination, Past, America

  "Thomas Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum Say American Greatness Is Slipping and Propose Fixes". Interview with Tonu Doukopil, www.thedailybeast.com. September 09, 2011.

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• The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Riches, Ifs

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• Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Dream, Opportunity, Growth

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• 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, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Special, United States, Doe

  Michael Mandelbaum (2009). “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Country, Division, World

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• The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  War, Believe, Police Work

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• The world needs a strong America.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Strong, America, Needs

  Third Presidential Debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Boca Raton, Florida, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 22, 2012.

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• American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Political, World, Stability

  "A frugal superpower’s rules" by Michael Mandelbaum, www.japantimes.co.jp. OCtober 20, 2010.

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• Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Football, Rome, People

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• Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  War, Great War, Great Power

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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.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Inspirational, Basketball, Sports

  Michael Mandelbaum (2005). “The Meaning Of Sports”, p.148, Hachette UK

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