51 Quotes by Michael Mandelbaum

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

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.

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.

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

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.

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

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.

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

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