Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers.

I remember being in China and realising how irrelevant not even Britain is, but also Europe. We're just another remote country that hardly impinges on some places at all.

Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

The world has grown frightening small in compass.

We're now married to the world. But we keep acting like we're on a big date.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

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.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

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.

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

Isolationism is over.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

The world is far more interconnected today. Hence the need to understand each other is greater than ever before.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

We do live, like it or not, in a world that is deeply interdependent. 9-11 proved that even security is something that we cannot achieve by ourselves.

There are no islands anymore

For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before..

The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody who is untrustworthy.

Of course, isolationism will not keep America isolated.