Best quotes by Michael Mandelbaum on World

Checkout quotes by Michael Mandelbaum on World

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

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• ‟ The world needs a strong America.

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• ‟ The United States will continue to be number one, and I do not see any country or group of countries taking the United States' place in providing global public goods that underpin security and prosperity. The United States functions as the world's de facto government.

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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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

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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.

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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.

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• ‟ The amount of military force necessary to provide reassurance depends on how dangerous people think the world is. And that I think ultimately depends upon the kinds of government that hold sway in major countries.

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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.

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

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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.

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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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