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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Sunday that the Tea Party's foreign policy stance was unclear, but maintained that the U.S. needs to be "engaged internationally."

"Every single problem that we are looking at -- whether it's fighting terrorism or dealing with a broken nuclear nonproliferation system or the climate change and energy issues or the gap between the rich and the poor -- requires American leadership, but it also requires being engaged in partners," Albright said on ABC's "This Week" when asked by host Christiane Amanpour how foreign policy would take shape with new Tea Party influence in Congress.

"We don't know what the Tea Party's foreign policy is," said Albright, who served under President Clinton.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), on the same program, said he was with "in the camp of the Republican Party that wants to work with President Obama to end it well in Iraq, to get it right in Afghanistan, contain Iran through effective sanctions."

"And to my friends in the Republican Party who want to withdraw, you do so at your own peril, but the administration has to do their part," Graham said.