Dan Rather Quotes

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

It's important that we elevate and primarily focus on the rights of American citizens, but it's also important that we don't forget, 95 percent of the world's population lives beyond our own borders.

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

What images do we see from the rest of the world? We see natural disasters, war, terror. We see refugees, and we see horrible diseases. Right? We see beautiful beaches, cute animals, beautiful nature, cultural rites and stuff. And then we're supposed to make the connection in our head and create a worldview out of this. And how is that possible?

I'm not disinterested in the rest of the world, but studies show the rest of the world is really freaking far away.

The United States is a great, great country, but it's not the only country, and we can learn a great deal beyond our own shores.

There are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more. Because Americans, it's easy to make us freak out. When the going gets rough, you have to get conservative. That's what's happened to America in the last eight years. I just try to point out that there's more going on than most people pay attention to.

We intend to continue our interest in the affairs of Europe and of the world.

Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.

It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

You know, my view is that we have a big world out there.

Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking.

America has always viewed the entire world through one kind of eye-glasses--that of American interests.

If we are going to lead the world, we have to know where it is.

the cornerstone of our foreign policy. But that does not entail a passive or submissive acceptance of political, economic, or cultural dependence.

For most U. S. citizens, the rest of the world has scant importance. Though the lack of interest in the rest of the world is a long-standing American trait, the feeling of complete national security is relatively new.

[William Howard] Taft was the last serious anti-interventionist presidential candidate in U. S. history.

There is every prospect that events arising out of our growing foreign investment will present us in the future with decisions involving war and peace, will bring us, whether we like it or not, to concern ourselves with distant causes.

We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth.

Nowhere on this planet today is there an impregnable fortress, a continent or island so distant that it can ignore all the outer world.

When I came to Congress in 1993, the traditional idea that all politics stopped at the water's edge was alive and well. Americans had been unified for the previous four decades against the threat from the former Soviet Union and communism.

I talk about my dad and the American dream, and I just want to say to Americans how fascinated we are by America. We would love Americans to look at the rest of the world that way sometimes.

Trade is an integral part of our foreign policy.

Of course, isolationism will not keep America isolated.