Quotes About Isolationism

#1. Isolationism is over.

Ralph Steadman

#2. There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really for the best.

Rashida Jones

#3. Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom.

Roger Cohen

#4. One must not allow oneself to skid down to isolationism and unbridled economic egoism ... The second possible mistake would be excessive interference into the economic life of the country. And the absolute faith into the all-mightiness of the state.

Vladimir Putin

#5. I think a Donald Trump presidency raises a new kind of version of conservatism which more closely resembles a kind of Father Coughlin, America first populism and nativism and isolationism, than the confident, modern, cosmopolitan, thoughtful, engaged conservatism of Ronald Reagan and Paul Ryan.

Bret Stephens

#6. Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!

Jonah Goldberg

#7. Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness - to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#8. [T]he isolationism of the Left stems from the conviction that America is bad for the rest of the world, whereas the isolationism of the Right is based on the belief that the rest of the world is bad for America.

Norman Podhoretz

#9. Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

John W. Snow

#10. Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

W. Averell Harriman

#11. I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Rand Paul

#12. 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

#13. 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 to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

Bobby Seale

#14. 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

#15. Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.

Christian Lous Lange

#16. Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

Douglas Alexander

#17. 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

#18. I have begun to wonder what actually happens in our brains when we return to half-remembered places. What is memory's perspective? Does the man revise the boy's view or is the imprint relatively static, a vestige of what was once intimately known?

Siri Hustvedt

#19. You can't build a wall round a village.
The sun and the wind
will always find their way in.

Igor Goldkind

#20. Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

Brian Tracy

#21. Others saw in the trend still another instance of a disturbing tendency in the American suburb: the longing for withdrawal, for self-enclosure, for expensive isolation.

Steven Millhauser

#22. Aye, get to cover! 'Tis a Kraken!" Sora

T.L. Shreffler

#23. How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.

Smith Wigglesworth

#24. I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty.

Christopher Hitchens

#25. In 2015, when I went back to the States or to an international conference, I found that people didn't much care anymore. They saw the Middle East awash in blood, beyond redemption, and didn't want to read about it or see it on the evening news. They just wanted to keep away from it.

Richard Engel

#26. An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Irv Kupcinet

#27. 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

#28. One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.

Stephen Richards

#29. Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.

Joel C. Rosenberg

#30. The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.

Vita Sackville-West

#31. I feel like I've been marinated in Australian theatre.

Cate Blanchett