Accepted Quote by Lawrence Summers

We spend a lot of money on protecting other countries. And yet those other countries aren't paying nearly what it costs us for that…

— Donald Trump

America spends billions of dollars protecting the borders of other countries around the world. It's high time we start protecting our own.

— Kellyanne Conway

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not crusading for goodness abroad.

— Don Feder

Protectionism has never been an answer, will never be an answer. We need trade. We need trade agreements worldwide.

— Frans Timmermans

Our global adversaries benefit when the United States burdens itself with policies that our competitors ignore.

— Bill Hagerty

There are some who want to move us back to the days when we were protectionists and keep all goods off our shores.

— William M. Daley

“The primary near-term security concern of the United States is the global economic crisis and its geopolitical implications.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.

— Susan Rice

What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done…

— Condoleezza Rice

We have to return to a foreign policy of restraint, one that develops our capabilities and our potential in communities across America, and not…

— Ro Khanna

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

— Maureen Dowd