Emmanuel Macron Quotes

Isolationism is over.

What Trump has announced - that he is going to not obey rules by which we govern our relations with other countries. He's going to reject the treaties that we have had in the past. He is going to go from what is called a multilateral system, where we all work together, to trying to deal country by country and basically throw out what has been achieved over a 60-year period.

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

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

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

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

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

There is no reason why we should not have peaceful relations with the world if we cease playing the role of international Meddlesome Mattie.

Unilateralism and isolationism are ideological twins.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

Don't think we've ever convinced the American people that it's not in our interest to be isolationists. Our tendency for the first century, maybe century-and-a-half of our existence was to be isolationists, to hide behind the two mighty oceans, to become self-sufficient, and to follow Washington's caution not to become involved in foreign entanglements and alliances.

America cannot meet this century's challenges alone; the world cannot meet them without America.

Today we will find most nations to be both our partners and our adversaries—sometimes simultaneously.

We do not believe that good relations with one country precludes good relations with another.

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

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

In my view, Russia has not been a particularly collaborative player on the world stage.

I believe in much more diplomacy, not less.

I want to show a new vector of policy that will be there when I will become a president. And my vector is friendship with America and friendship with European Union.

Isolationism is not leadership.

We do not worry about how a sovereign country keeps its relations with others.

We are a small country and we have limited influence so we are neutral.

President Trump is not an isolationist and builds closer friendships when he can.

Donald Trump's United States is not isolationist. He has authorized the use of limited military force against the Syrian government in a manner his predecessor rejected.