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 American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Political, Trying, Frustrating

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• 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 its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Political, Roles, World

  Michael Mandelbaum (2009). “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts As the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century”, p.4, PublicAffairs

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• 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 New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  New York, People, September 11

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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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• 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, do not fully trust one another.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  United States, Conflict, Preparing

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• In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Country, Powerful, Past

  "Lou Hobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. April 26, 2006.

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• 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 increasingly illegitimate.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Normal, Kind, Natural

  Michael Mandelbaum (2009). “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts As the World's Government in the Twenty-First Century”, p.9, PublicAffairs

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• 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 Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Cities, Towers, Culture

  Michael Mandelbaum (2004). “The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century”, p.1, PublicAffairs

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

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Riches, Ifs

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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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