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
“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
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
“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
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
“I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
From a philosophical perspective, I want to fight off isolationism and protectionism, be it part of another voice out there that says,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used… — Rashida Jones Copy Share Image
I'm not surprised that Governor Dean would oppose [the $87 billion to fund Iraq reconstruction].... I've lost confidence that he has any… — John McCain Copy Share Image
We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
[T]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism… — Norman Podhoretz Copy Share Image
“That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
This flirtation with isolationism in the Republican party is over. It's giving way to a more muscular foreign policy than I've been… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image