People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.
Michael MandelbaumAmerican 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.
Michael MandelbaumAmerican foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
Michael MandelbaumInequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.
Michael Mandelbaum