Michael Mandelbaum Quotes

Number One, if there is no America, then the world will be a complete mess.

There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

I believe the previous administration shrunk from some of our responsibilities as a superpower and made the world a more dangerous place.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

For years now, long before I became House majority leader, I have been passionate about foreign affairs because I believe that anyone who leads in Washington must appreciate the significance of America's role in providing for global security and prosperity.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

Americans tend to see U.S. primacy as beneficial to both their country and the rest of the world.

Although no one likes a hegemon, America will be a better hegemon than others would be.

The big question is how do you allow new powers like India and China to emerge without destabilizing the world order?

In our globalized world, our domestic prosperity depends heavily on the world economy, which, of course, requires stability and order. Who provides that stability and order? The U.S. military.

As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European Union would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult role to play in the world.

Great powers can't get tired, because the international order is not self-governing.

The U.S. is the most benign great power we will see in our lifetimes, and it is important for global peace that its leaders continue to value being viewed as benign.

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

My alternative to American superpower is the UN and I might add when China becomes the worlds greatest superpower you will need it too.

The American Left complains that we have no right to be the world's police force. On the contrary. We've been the world's janitor for almost a century, and after September 11, it became obvious it's better, safer, and more productive to change things instead of cleaning up after the mess.

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.

American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. We're the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that we're down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.