My interest in foreign policy is above the average voter's interest. That doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it.
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I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.
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.
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
My view of foreign policy is that we need to be careful and circumspect about United States intervention in any foreign nation.
In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.
I'm not a policymaker, I'm not a pundit. In fact, I don't have any interest in it. It's not on my agenda.