Quotes by Michael Mandelbaum

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 converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

Historical

Past

Real

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

Gains

Loss

Matter

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

Political

Stability

World

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.

Doe

Special

United States

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.

Play

Roles

United States

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.

Europe

Goal

People

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.

Dream

Growth

Opportunity

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.

Democracy

Government

World

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

Football

People

Rome

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

Great Power

Great War

War

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America

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Assumption

Basketball

Believe

Book

Cities

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Country

Culture

Democracy

Determination

Division

Doe

Dream

Empires

Europe

Firsts

Football

Frustrating

Gains

Goal

Government

Great Power

Great War

Growth

Hearing

Historical

Ifs

Important

Inspirational

Kind

Loss

Matter

Mislead

Natural

Needs

New York

Normal

Oil

Opportunity

Past

People

Play

Police Work

Political

Powerful

Preparing

Real

Responsibility

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Quotes by Michael Mandelbaum

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 converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

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