People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.
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 MandelbaumWhile analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
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