Ed Davey Quotes

Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

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

Trump promised an 'America First' foreign policy rooted in the national interest, not in nostalgia.

Human rights, race relations, gender politics, health care, and foreign policy - it's a lot to keep track of, and yet all of these things affect us in our daily lives. Making sense of everything requires meticulous unpacking of feelings, delicate navigation of social norms, and a community of love to help along the way.

Development cooperation between nations is very important because it is one of the building blocks of shared peace, prosperity, and human rights for all. It is one of the antidotes to the poison of xenophobia.

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.

Isolationism is over.

I'm concerned when certain movements or countries have been isolated from the international dialogue because then you have no way of influencing them.

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

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

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Freedom demands conditions of an economic, social, political and cultural kind which makes possible its full exercise.

If you renounce isolationism, I won’t run for President.

Entangling alliances have been considered worse than original sin since George Washington.

Unilateralism and isolationism are ideological twins.