Brent Scowcroft Quotes

Frankly I'm a bit concerned when it comes to U.S.-China relations.

The more Trump emphasises America First, the more it turns into America Alone.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

Isolationism has been a calamity.

Unilateralism and isolationism are ideological twins.

An isolationist America would be everyone's nightmare.

I should drag in the United States.

Wherever people are free, foreign and domestic policy are inseparable.

The Middle East does not follow Las Vegas rules. Whatever happens in the Middle East affects the rest of the world.

Foreign policy involves a good deal of domestic policy.

The United States is lucky: It has only two neighboring countries and oceans on both sides. We have over a dozen neighboring countries and we have a long and complicated history with them.

The historical ambivalence of the United States toward global engagement is a thread that runs through American history.

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

Maybe Americans feel they don't need the rest of the world anymore, and they wish it would go away. We don't have that option.

Belarus cannot be isolated.

I think isolationism is a mistake, no matter what party you see it in. We have to remember that there are two threats to our freedom: there's a threat that comes from the federal government, from the Obama Administration policies... but there's also a huge and significant threat from al-Qaeda.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

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