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" The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it. "

Michael Mandelbaum

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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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" The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients. "

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

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

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

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" Great wars can only be fought by great powers. "

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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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" 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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" 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 world needs a strong America. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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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 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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