Michael Mandelbaum World Quotations

The world needs a strong America.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

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 United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

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

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

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.