Michael Mandelbaum Quotes
People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.
While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.
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.
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.
One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.
The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.
The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.
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.
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
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.
Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.
The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.
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.
American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.
Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.