John F. McManus Quotes

Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves on every occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us.

Such a conspiracy does not accord with the general sentiments or views of the United States to intermeddle in the domestic contests of other nations..

I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that it found encumbering for domestic purposes.

I'm tired of the U.S. getting involved in every country's individual disputes.

[Commenting on foreign policy:] The Best politics is no politics.

Our first and fundamental maxim should never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,—entangling alliances with none.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

America would never consent to become entangled in European diplomacy…

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

The Government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may befall those States simply because they are situated in the Western Hemisphere.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

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.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

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

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

Perhaps we have already intervened too much in the affairs of other peoples.

In most nations, public opinion is in revolt against foreign policy.

The English people would never consent to go to war for a cause in which England was not manifestly interested.

Unilateralism and isolationism are ideological twins.

In the wars of the European Powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so.