Nicholas Soames Quotes

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

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.

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

A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

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

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.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Globalization is blurring the distinction between foreign affairs and domestic politics.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

There must of course always be separate interests of different nations which their governments are bound to maintain, but there are also common interests in which all civilized nations share. These common interests arise from the interdependence of civilized peoples and they are a product of developing civilization.

In an interdependent world …, the idea that American can have of the blessings of globalization but none of the burdens doesn’t add up.

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

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

Isolationism is not leadership.

I think where Trump just has it dead wrong is this is a world of us versus them.

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

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities.

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

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our power. The expansion of democracy and freedom in the world should be a shared interest and value with all nations.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.