The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.
Michael MandelbaumFootball is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.
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 MandelbaumThe less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.
Michael Mandelbaum