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While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

~Michael Mandelbaum

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

~Michael Mandelbaum

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

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

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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

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Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

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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.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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