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The world needs a strong America.
Michael Mandelbaum / Professor
America
Needs
Strong
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Great wars can only be fought by great powers.
Michael Mandelbaum / Professor
War
Great Power
Great War
Wars
Fought
Powers
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All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.
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Gains
Loss
Matter
Losses
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The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.
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Democratic
Division
World
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The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
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America
American Empire
Disappear
Doe
Empires
Empire
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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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Important
Oil
Use
Region
Uses
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The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.
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Opportunity
Government
Advantage
Citizens
Responsibility
Take Advantage
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The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.
Michael Mandelbaum / Professor
War
Real
World
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The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.
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Ifs
Riches
Recipients
Worse
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People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.
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People
Should
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American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
Michael Mandelbaum / Professor
American Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy
Political
Shortcomings
Stability
World
Foreign
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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 / Professor
America
Strong
Weak
World
World America Will
Worse
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The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
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War
Believe
Cruise
Missiles
Police
Police Work
Terror
Effective
Waged
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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 / Professor
American Foreign Policy
Firsts
Foreign Policy
Tasks
United States
Foreign
Reduce
Remind
Task
Threats
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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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Analogies
Assumption
Mislead
Analogy
Assumptions
Misleading
Smuggle
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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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Frustrating
Political
Trying
Political System
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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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Government
Doe
United States
Altruistic
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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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Ancient
Ancient Rome
Contests
Football
People
Rome
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The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.
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Patriotism
America
Determination
Past
Programs
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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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Inspirational
Architecture
Sports
Basketball
Concrete
Football
Said
Team
Set
Embodied
Team Sports
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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.
Michael Mandelbaum / Professor
Administration
Rulers
Ties
Every American
Maintained
Roosevelt
Saudi
Simple Reason
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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 / Professor
Book
Comedy Shows
Hearing
Serious
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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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Existence
Human Existence
Inequality
Kind
Natural
Normal
Twentieth Century
Considered
Illegitimate
Increasingly
Twentieth
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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.
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Conflict
Preparing
Serving
United States
Armed
Buffer
Fully
Powers
Regional
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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.
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Future
Converting
Historical
Instruments
Navigate
Past
Real
After
Analogy
Only
Organizing
Guide
Map
Which
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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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Constructive
Critical
Other Countries
Shrinks
Abroad
Extent
Plays
Suffer
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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.
Michael Mandelbaum / Professor
Confusion
Uncertainty
Forces
Neither
Newspaper
Section
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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 / Professor
Cities
Culture
Tall
Towers
World Trade
World Trade Center
Buildings
Center
Cultures
Twin
Grandest
Highly
Monumental
Societies
Noted
Raise
Tallest
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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.
Michael Mandelbaum / Professor
Depends
Military Force
Reassurance
Government World People
Provide
Sway
Ultimately
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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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Government
American Foreign Policy
Criticize
Democracy
Foreign Policy
Policy
World
All The World
First Of All
Foreign
God-Given
Least
Surprised
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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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Obscure
September
Urgent
Attacks
Distant
Materialize
Persuaded
Therefore
Threats
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In the past, a blow to the international system's strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of September 11, however, every significant government in the world declared its support for the United States.
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Blow
Rivals
September
Significant
Power Government World
In The Past
Wake
Welcomed
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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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Benefits
Constructive
Dislike
Play
Roles
United States
Unprecedented
Actively
Historically
Inhabitants
Oppose
Plays
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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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Borders
Founding
Political
Principles
Roles
World
Power World Political
Asserting
Power Political World
Imperial
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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.
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Asia
Conflict
East
East Asia
Europe
Goal
Governance
Middle East
Oppressed
People
Stopping
Worthy
Ethnic
None
Protecting
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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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Dream
Opportunity
Growth
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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 Dream
Economic Growth
Promise
Term
Each Generation
Popular
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Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.
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Arrangements
Defining
Desirable
Attitudes
Carried
Directions
Perceptions
Policies
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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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Goods
Providing
Government World Will
Government World Country
Facto
Functions
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The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.
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Aspect
Cheating
Fixed
Sin
Spontaneity
Appeal
Cardinal
Fundamental
Scripted
Threatens
Wreck
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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 / Professor
Cases
Doe
Empires
Prove
Special
United States
Considerable
Directly
Exceptions
Indirectly
Societies
Save
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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 / Professor
New York
Grim
Pennsylvania
People
September
September 11
Shock
Spectacular
World
Change World People
Change World Change The World
Caused
Attacks
Change The World
Costly
Ended
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Throughout
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The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.
Michael Mandelbaum / Professor
Failure
Baseball
Causality
Determine
Psychological
Resources
Shoulders
Great Always Responsibility
Absolute
Cruelest
Sport
Great Thing
Play Baseball
Requires
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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 / Professor
Appreciate
Band
Clip
Country
Other Countries
Past
Powerful
Threatened
Wings
Countries
Happening
In The Past
Provide
Secretly
Services
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