I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Isolationism is over. It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become. — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else. — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution.… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“He is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people are naïve enough to confuse this with anti-imperialism that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is...We've got… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
“Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure,… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“The evangelical with his "minority complex" often forgets that he is part of a massive historical movement much larger than his own… — Arthur F. Holmes Copy Share Image
“The consensus that had sustained our postwar foreign policy had evaporated. The men and women who had sustained our international commitments and… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“It seems a lot of Christians are quick to condemn the world and write its inhabitants off as lost causes. It’s odd,… — Katherine J Walden Copy Share Image
We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars: It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I think a Donald Trump presidency raises a new kind of version of conservatism which more closely resembles a kind of Father… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their… — John W. Snow Copy Share Image
One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism. ... The second possible mistake would be excessive… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The challenge is whether China as a rising country, the United States as the superpower, can develop a cooperative relationship in this… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We think that fear must be played out in fight, with military intervention, or in flight, via isolationism - but we are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Donald Trump very clearly said America first. That is a traditional right wing, but also very isolationist. That takes us back to… — Sam Tanenhaus Copy Share Image
A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
[Alex Haley] objective was to illustrate that the racial separatism of the N.O.I. was a kind of pathological or a kind of… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
In both British and American history, fervent imperialism has always coexisted with bouts of fierce isolationism. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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