Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
Michael MandelbaumTo 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 MandelbaumLet me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
Michael MandelbaumThe real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.
Michael Mandelbaum