“When you are isolated, you do not have an idea of what's going on in the world. This can be bad for your health.”
Cheryl Laferty
“In a world with millions of international journeys and economic transactions every year, ideas of 'Splendid Isolation' or rhetoric about 'the White Cliffs of Dover' can do nothing to address international criminality, terrorism or serious and organized crime or address patterns of international migration,”
Charles Clarke
“We're not isolated when it comes to that. What's disturbing with a little more of these cases recently is that they're right here in our area.”
Lt. Tod Dahle
“While we are not and cannot become the world's policeman, neither can we become a prisoner of world events, isolated and tucked safely away in a continental cocoon.”
William S. Cohen
“They demonstrate that you can isolate the equivalent embryonic stem cells by alternative methods that may not raise the ethical questions. I would say they also raise more questions than answers.”
Dr George Daley
“Isolating a single herb and furthermore isolating its active ingredient reduces the overall effectiveness of the remedy, and is not a holistic science. Unfortunately, science is still far from being able to tie the complicated human physiology into holistic and comprehensive understanding. I hope that future scientific research on Chinese herbal therapy will try and measure the effectiveness of herbal combinations rather than that of isolated active ingredients.”
Dr Joshua Pollock
“Since then the paper became aware of fresh allegations that suggest quite clearly these incidents were not isolated. So there's a serious question over it . . . and it becomes a public interest matter.”
Greg Baxter