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Quotes About State Department

While I cannot comment in detail about the inter workings of the State Department, it is a matter of public record that I recommended a visa for Gerry Adams to visit the United States. I believe then, and I continue to believe now, that this step did help to advance the peace process in Northern Ireland.
~ Jean Kennedy Smith
Tellingly, the department that deals with relations with the rest of the world doesn't have the word "foreign" in it: it is the State Department. It looks after the interests of one state alone. It might be called the Bargepole Department.
~ A.A. Gill
The No. 1 source in the State Department was Alger Hiss, who was then an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State, Francis Sayre, the son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson. The No. 2 source in the same Department was Henry Julian Wadleigh, an expert in the Trade Agreements Division, to which he had managed to have himself transferred from the Agriculture Department. He had done so at the request of the Communist Party
~ Whittaker Chambers
When Clinton traveled to Russia, known for its hackers and cyber warfare against the United States and other democracies, she didn't bother to tap into the government-protected email system provided by the State Department. Instead, she continued to communicate through her personal, home-brewed and unsecured server.
~ Katie Pavlich
I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win.
~ Stuart Symington
In short, I will never allow partisanship to undermine our national security when the lives of countless people lay in the balance. If that earns me enemies in Washington or at the State Department, then so be it.
~ Tulsi Gabbard
Today I received a letter from the IRS. It appears they are notifying the State Department that I owe substantial taxes and that my passport should not be renewed!
~ Richard Lawless
Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Two of our officers were killed in Benghazi by an Al Qaeda-like group" and the State Department transcript release of a telephone call between Clinton and then-Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil where she stated, "We know the attack in Libya had nothing to do with the film. It was a planned attack, not a protest
~ Alexandra York
The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.
~ Elliot Richardson
A document was drafted in the State Department in July 1946 by an official named Samuel Klaus. This indicated that there were then 20 alleged Soviet agents, 13 alleged Communists, about a dozen sympathizers, and about 75 suspects in the department, according to the FBI.
~ M. Stanton Evans
The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades. It was never very well done until, really, the Ukraine, though I would say that the Russians used to complain about fake things to say the State Department.
~ Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Let's hope Trump's State Department and USAID will follow open records laws and disclose the details of the Obama-Soros wellspring.
~ Tom Fitton
Judicial Watch's FOIA lawsuits have already shown the Obama State Department was corruptly targeting President Trump.
~ Tom Fitton
why were the State Department and President Roosevelt so hesitant to express in frank terms how they really felt about Hitler at a time when such expressions clearly could have had a powerful effect on his prestige in the world?
~ Erik Larson
This is the usual way in which the State Department, without taking the least responsibility for the outcome, makes comments of an entirely unhelpful character in a spirit of complete detachment.'82
~ Andrew Roberts
White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.
~ Jeffrey Sachs
State Department. If it's the Brit or the Russian or the Israeli, then sure, we'll let State take the victory lap, but until we know that for certain, this remains a closely held project." "Is that what you call it now?" "Top secret was already taken.
~ Lee Child
Special Forces were the armed wing of the CIA, which was the hands-on wing of the State Department
~ Lee Child
In the early years of my work in this field, I observed as an elite crew of law professors and media experts, State Department officials, and corporate executives sought solutions that centered free expression issues that aligned, almost perfectly, with the goals of the US government.
~ Jillian York
I happen to know that the State Department furnished the money for my son to return back to the United States,
~ Jim Bishop
Kevin Shipp, a former CIA counterintelligence expert, and Lopez both agreed that the gunrunning operation bordered on treasonous activity and is a secret the Obama White House and Clinton State Department sought to suppress from the public. In the "Blue Lantern" program, the
~ Jim Marrs
Meanwhile, Lakeland Industries, a manufacturer of protective clothing, announced the U.S. State Department had put out a bid for 160,000 hazmat suits for the battle against Ebola.
~ Jim Marrs