Jon Meacham Quotes

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.

There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

France has always succeeded because it is part of the world.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

Isolationism is over.

To be influential in tomorrow's world, to defend our values and our development model, France needs Europe and Europe needs France.

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

I do not want Britain to turn its back on Europe or the rest of the world.

I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.

Isolationism is not leadership.

It's important that we have a global perspective and look abroad and learn from our neighbors.

Universities have a big role to play... making it very clear to their counterparts, their networks, that the U.K. is not walking away from the world. We still value multilateral cooperation, we still see the EU as a significant partner.

As the world has grown bigger for our country, the opportunities greater, the chances more glittering for our commerce and our people, too many of those who practice politics have taken a cramped and limited view of Europe and the rest of the world.

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

The world is waiting for us, the world wants to engage with us, the world wants to be friendly with us, the world wants to be our partner in prosperity, and the world admires India in many ways.

China's reform and opening-up programme and Europe's integration process have both contributed significantly to global peace, development, and prosperity. China firmly supports the integration of Europe and regards the E.U. as a strategic partner that deserves our confidence.

Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges - challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.