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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
Experience
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it. "
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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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" The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles. "
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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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" While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong. "
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" The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire. "
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" The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries. "
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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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" The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" The world needs a strong America. "
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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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" 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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" American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world. "
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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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" 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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