Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
Michael MandelbaumThe less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.
Michael MandelbaumEconomic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.
Michael Mandelbaum