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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.

Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.

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

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.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

Foreign policy is important.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.