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There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

It has become starkly apparent to me that we lack any sort of strategic foreign policy view, and when I say 'we,' I mean the country in general, but in particular, the Republican Party.

Foreign policy is like human relations, only people know less about each other.

The internal affairs of other countries has a big impact on American interests.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.

My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.

Foreign policy is something Americans care about when the economy is good, and when it isn't, they hardly notice it. It's hard to worry about what happens in the Mideast when you don't have a job in the Midwest.