Anne Applebaum Quotes

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

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

The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.

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

China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as compared to shared differences and for this reason relations will continue to be good.

It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

America's relations with complex Middle Eastern states such as Egypt are often difficult.

If the United States disengages from many issues confronting the international community it will be replaced.

America needs a bipartisan foreign policy that is predictable, pragmatic, and understandable.

Isolationism is not leadership.

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

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.

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.

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

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.

Isolationism is over.

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

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

We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy.

The reason that Americans have not been able to see the great strategic benefit that could accrue from a closer relationship with Iran is emotion.

The United States' administrations... must recognize that Iran is a big power. Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country.

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

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

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