Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.
Our priority will be to look after the interests of our own country and its citizens.
American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.
What I will do is put America first. People don't like to use that term of America first, but we're going to make America great again by putting America first.
A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.
It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.
My every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.
I have about two manicures a year, maybe three haircuts. I used to get blowdries all the time, and I never did my own hair. Now I'm last in the queue - the focus is on my home.
The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.
I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.
I don't set out to make a film for festivals abroad.
We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.
We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.
[N]ine-tenths of the people who are in the Home Service don't want to go abroad. They are people who live in Washington and have gotten acquainted with the jungle of this town and know their way around.
I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.
Jeffersonian isolationism expressed an essentially cosmopolitan spirit. The Jeffersonian was determined - even at the expense of separating himself from the rest of the globe, and even though he be charged with provincial selfishness - to preserve America as an uncontaminated laboratory.
The time has come to make the difficult decision. Charity begins at home. We can no longer afford to rebuild Afghanistan and America. We must choose. And I choose America.
