Quotes by Michael Mandelbaum

About Michael Mandelbaum:

Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor and Director of the American Foreign Policy program at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He has written 10 books on American foreign policy and the edited 12 more. He most recently co-authored That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back with The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.
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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.

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

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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.'

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

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The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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The world needs a strong America.

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

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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.

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

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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 critical of what America does abroad, will suffer.

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The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it therefore makes sense to attend to them even before they become urgent.

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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 ...

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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.

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

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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 an...

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Author Bio

  • NameMichael Mandelbaum
  • DescriptionAcademic
  • BornSeptember 23, 1946