Kenneth Rogoff Quotes

Isolationism has been a calamity.

An isolationist America would be everyone's nightmare.

We have at last awakened to the realization that foreign and domestic trade are not in separate water-tight compartments--that they flow through the same pipes and seek a common level. We cannot live by ourselves, shut off from the balance of the world, without working harm to our economic system that would require many years for repair.

International economic cooperation has delivered benefits to the United States and other countries that would have been impossible to attain otherwise.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

I don't expect the U.S. and China to get into a trade war simply because I think there are good people on both sides who realize that that's not in either economy's interest.

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

A key U.S. initiative in this trade war must be to develop reliable trading partners in the world.

It's not our business for the United States to sort out the other fellow's economic problems. We've got enough of our own.

We can’t influence other countries’ decisions if we send them a message that we’re backing away from trade.

Taking into consideration that we are involved in Russia's orbit, any coughing there will produce painful economic and political convulsions here.

More and more we must build our foreign policy around commerce.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.

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

In a complex and challenging time, the road of isolationism and protectionism may seem broad and inviting — yet it ends in danger and decline.

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

Isolationism is not leadership.

We need more and more engagement with China rather than isolating it more and more.

No good libertarian I know wants us to completely isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. It's not even possible. I mean there are economic ties - there are trade routes that need to be secured. You know international trade can't happen if you don't have open oceans.

Argentina needs to have a different foreign policy. Because of a lack of foreign policy, investments haven't been what they should be.

We're so interdependent, and what one country does is such an important part of what happens in the global economy.

Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.

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.