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1. "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." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
2. "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." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
3. "Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
4. "While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
5. "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." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
6. "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
7. "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." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
8. "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." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
9. "All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
10. "Great wars can only be fought by great powers." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
11. "One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
12. "The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
13. "The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
14. "The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
15. "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
16. "The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
17. "The world needs a strong America." ~ Michael Mandelbaum
18. "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

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