Everything we do, everything we are as a society, as an economy, sends a message, sets an example. So Charlottesville, that's foreign policy. When the economy grows, that's foreign policy.
Richard Haass explains the broader implications of domestic issues on U.S. foreign policy.
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Foreign policy must be about priorities. As you all know, the United States cannot do everything, everywhere.
I think it would be criminal as a society--or negligent, I will use a better word--for us not to do certain sorts of things to put us on a safer trajectory.
Pakistan is a strategically vital country with which we must engage for our own national security.