{"author":"Patrick Mendis","author_id":"Patrick+Mendis","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"Within this historic and optimistic future in mind, I have made no value judgment of the destiny bestowed on each nation. For all this, however, leadership matters; so do the institutional structures and the system of political governance.","author":"Patrick Mendis","tags":["china","destiny","governance","institutional-structure","institutions","leaders","leadership","optimism","political-philosophy","sion-american-relations","usa","value-judgement"],"id":9123,"author_id":"Patrick+Mendis"},{"text":"America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers—Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left—on the monument to “Justice, the Guardian of Liberty” displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.","author":"Patrick Mendis","tags":["america","ancient-lawgivers","china","confucius","eastern-pediment","justice","moses","solon","the-guardian-of-liberty","us","us-supreme-court","washington-dc"],"id":20018,"author_id":"Patrick+Mendis"},{"text":"Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.","author":"Patrick Mendis","tags":["capitalism","greed-and-power","hamiltonian-style","jeffersonian-inspriation"],"id":38350,"author_id":"Patrick+Mendis"},{"text":"Unlike Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China, the United States was created by an enlightened band of Founding Fathers with a global vision for the new republic.","author":"Patrick Mendis","tags":["china","enlightened-founding-fathers","global-vision","new-republic","russia","saudi-arabia","the-golobalist","united-states"],"id":39043,"author_id":"Patrick+Mendis"},{"text":"China seems to have skillfully adapted a Monroe Doctrine, or “Ménluó” (a transliteration of the word “Monroe”) Doctrine, in America’s backyard.","author":"Patrick Mendis","tags":["america","china","menlou-doctrine","monroe-doctrine","usa"],"id":88347,"author_id":"Patrick+Mendis"},{"text":"China is constantly reinventing itself and so is the United States.","author":"Patrick Mendis","tags":["china","reinventing","united-states"],"id":99053,"author_id":"Patrick+Mendis"},{"text":"A convergence exists in the search for human excellence on both sides of the Pacific Ocean.","author":"Patrick Mendis","tags":["america","china","human-excellence","pacific-ocean","us"],"id":125320,"author_id":"Patrick+Mendis"},{"text":"History is the archaeology of the present and future.","author":"Patrick Mendis","tags":["america","american-history","china","usa"],"id":145878,"author_id":"Patrick+Mendis"},{"text":"The Chinese construction of South Asia’s tallest edifice, the Lotus (a Lotus Sutra in Buddhism) Tower, both points to Beijing’s Peaceful Rise and unsettles some onlookers. For the nervous India and the United States, the cleverly designed and highly sophisticated rising communications tower is more than a Buddhist symbol of Peaceful Rise.","author":"Patrick Mendis","tags":["buddhist-diplomacy","buddhist-symbol","colombo","colombo-lotus-tower","colombo-tower","communications-tower","india","lotus-sutra","lotus-tower","peaceful-rise","united-states"],"id":167408,"author_id":"Patrick+Mendis"},{"text":"As Pacific Ocean nations, competition and cooperation between the two nations will create a new atmosphere—leading to the Birth of a ‘Pacific’ New World Order—that is more engaging and less confrontational; this can be characterized by the presence of force without war.","author":"Patrick Mendis","tags":["america","china","competition","confrontation","cooperation","pacific-ocean","peace-without-war","usa"],"id":171095,"author_id":"Patrick+Mendis"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}