Retrenchment Quotes

When people get scared, they quit giving.

America is turning inward, and that's making the whole world a more dangerous place.

Peace, retrenchment and reform.

I am for "Peace, retrenchment, and reform," the watchword of the great Liberal party thirty years ago.

Leadership is absolutely vital if there are comparable countries which can affect the security of the world you live in. Between Lincoln and Roosevelt's time, America was protected by huge oceans and, in practice, by the British navy. Today, it's different, and the obsession of the Obama administration has been for retrenchment.

Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

The United States, after having risen to heights of courage and idealism in its entry and prosecution of the war, has gone to the other extreme in the making of peace. For taking this course history will probably be even less sparing of us than our present-day critics.

There were so many women who had worked throughout the war in every possible job. They were told, "Now leave, so the men can come in" and there was this whole feminizing of women: You have to be very, very retiring and submissive and whatever.

Retrenchment president’s often like covert action. It’s cheaper. It’s secret.

In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.

We're going through a period of retrenchment as the dynamics of the playing field are changing.