American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.
Michael MandelbaumThe attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.
Michael MandelbaumOne thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.
Michael MandelbaumIf 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