State department Quotes

I worked at the State Department.

— Andy Kim

The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.

— Mort Sahl

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

— Dana Rohrabacher

The State Department said the countries that are most stealing our best ideas also are our best allies.

— Louis J. Freeh

State Department official accused of offering 'quid pro quo' in [Hillary] Clinton email scandal.

— Donald Trump

It is impossible to figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins.

— Donald Trump

If I could send a message back to my younger self, it would be: Do not work for the State Department at…

— Erik Prince

The advance guard in the campaign for peace that America wages today must be the State Department.

— Louis A. Johnson

I'd like to hire Hillary Clinton. She looks unhappy at the State Department. She'd get ratings.

— Roger Ailes

“- Which State Department, exactly, are we talking about? - The one in Washington, D.C.”

— Tara Janzen

Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is:…

— Paul Robeson

My job is to make certain that I've done what I was asked and my department has done what we were asked…

— Desiree Rogers

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

— Jeffrey Sachs

The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my…

— Elliot Richardson

Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

At the State Department, I oversaw the U.S. government's efforts to get information into North Korea. We funded defector-run radio stations, which…

— Tom Malinowski

That is not respecting our democracy, using the State Department as a concierge for foreign donations, not really respecting our American democracy.

— Kellyanne Conway

“Without prior notice to the other powers or even to the State Department officials concerned with the consortium, Wilson proceeded to inform…

— Warren I. Cohen

Silencing the U.S. State Department, putting a friend of Vladimir Putin's in charge at the U.S. State Department, who stands by quietly…

— Rachel Maddow

Anne Richard, a senior U.S. State Department official, testified at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing in November 2015 that any Syrian…

— Peter Bergen

And at the UN she took the advice - she had to take the advice - of the State Department and the…

— William A. Rusher

While I cannot comment in detail about the inter workings of the State Department, it is a matter of public record that…

— Jean Kennedy Smith

The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting…

— Elliott Abrams

When Vladimir Putin runs up against American power and American criticism and American leadership that reminds him of what Russia isn't, when…

— Rachel Maddow

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their…

— Hillary Clinton

“The Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration of the Washington establishment is remarkable by any standard. Former FBI Special Agent John Guandolo noted in October…

— Robert Spencer

I'm not saying that you need a State Department that looks like the litigation department of a major law firm. But you…

— John Bolton

Both the State Department and the FBI deny any 'quid pro quo' between Hillary Clinton's State Department and the FBI.

— Thomas Roberts

Mr. Tillerson's obsession with downsizing our diplomacy has colored his time at the State Department.

— Antony Blinken

You [Hillary Clinton] ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen. They don't know. It's gone, $6 billion.

— Hillary Clinton

Bill Barr has gutted the Justice Department. Mike Pompeo has gutted the State Department. We are in serious danger here.

— Mary L. Trump

Hillary Clinton used the State Department to enrich their family at America's expense.

— Donald Trump

I got to stick with what I know [about The Clinton Foundation]. I'm not an official of the State Department.

— Donna Brazile

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State…

— Erik Larson

I used to do a lot of apologizing for what the State Department had done.

— Dizzy Gillespie

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

— Hillary Clinton

The State Department is essentially... I was going to use the word useless. But I don't know if that's correct.

— Michael Hastings

Every day at the State Department, we tackle issues at the intersection of foreign policy and science and technology.

— Antony Blinken

I took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all my work-related emails public for everyone to see.

— Hillary Clinton