Michael Mandelbaum Quotes

• One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Strong, America, World

  Michael Mandelbaum (2010). “The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era”, p.194, PublicAffairs

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• People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Gente, Debería

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• Permítanme recordarles que la primera tarea de la política exterior estadounidense es reducir las amenazas contra Estados Unidos.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  United States, Tasks, Firsts

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

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Analogies, Assumption, Mislead

  "The Great Game Then and Now". Address to the Conference on Oil and Gas in the Caspian Sea Region: Geopolitical and Regional Security, March 12, 1998.

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• La verdadera amenaza para la estabilidad mundial no es el exceso de poder estadounidense. Es demasiado poco poder estadounidense.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Real, War, World

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• Sin duda, proteger a los oprimidos, poner fin a los conflictos étnicos y promover una gobernanza responsable son objetivos loables. Pero ninguno es tan importante para la seguridad y la prosperidad de Estados Unidos como mantener la paz en Oriente Próximo, Europa y Asia Oriental.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Europe, People, Goal

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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.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Government, United States, Doe

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• Las sociedades erigen sus monumentos más grandiosos a lo que sus culturas valoran más. Las Torres Gemelas del World Trade Center, los edificios más altos de una ciudad famosa por su altura, eran ciertamente monumentales.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Cities, Towers, Culture

  Michael Mandelbaum (2004). “The Ideas That Conquered the World: Peace, Democracy, and Free Markets in the Twenty-First Century”, p.1, PublicAffairs

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• En primer lugar, el mundo critica la política exterior estadounidense porque los estadounidenses critican la política exterior estadounidense. No debería sorprendernos. Criticar al gobierno es un derecho otorgado por Dios, al menos en las democracias.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Government, Democracy, World

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• El poder estadounidense confiere beneficios a la mayoría de los habitantes del planeta, incluso a muchos a los que no les gusta y a algunos que se oponen activamente, porque Estados Unidos desempeña un papel importante, constructivo e históricamente sin precedentes en el mundo.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Play, United States, Roles

  Michael Mandelbaum (2010). “The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era”, p.53, PublicAffairs

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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

  Book, Hearing, Serious

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• The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  America, Doe, Empires

  "The Frugal Superpower: America's Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era by Michael Mandelbaum" by George Walden, www.theguardian.com. August 07, 2010.

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• Después de todo, el pasado es nuestra única guía real para el futuro, y las analogías históricas son instrumentos para destilar y organizar el pasado y convertirlo en un mapa por el que podemos navegar.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Real, Past, Historical

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

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Government

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• Toda política es cuestión de ganancias y pérdidas, de ventajas y desventajas.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Loss, Matter, Gains

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

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Riches, Ifs

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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.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Determination, Past, America

  "Thomas Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum Say American Greatness Is Slipping and Propose Fixes". Interview with Tonu Doukopil, www.thedailybeast.com. September 09, 2011.

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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

  Special, United States, Doe

  Michael Mandelbaum (2009). “The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World's Government in the”, p.19, Hachette UK

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

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Country, Division, World

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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.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Inspiración, Baloncesto, Deportes

  Michael Mandelbaum (2005). “The Meaning Of Sports”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• La política exterior estadounidense, con todos sus defectos, ha apuntalado la estabilidad política en todo el mundo.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Political, World, Stability

  "A frugal superpower’s rules" by Michael Mandelbaum, www.japantimes.co.jp. OCtober 20, 2010.

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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.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Football, Rome, People

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• Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  War, Great War, Great Power

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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.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Political, Trying, Frustrating

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

  Michael Mandelbaum

  Oil, Important, Use

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