The State Department is essentially... I was going to use…

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

— Philip Levine

All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.

— Amber Naslund

“The most powerful remote in the world is useless if you don’t know which button changes the channel.”

— Adora Aiza

“Getting A’s in school is useless if you don’t get a profitable skill.”

— Tom Wright

“Your vibes are useless if you don’t trust them.”

— Sonia Choquette

If someone calls you useless don't reply in words, but in acts and prove them wrong.

— Senora Roy

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

— Elliott Abrams

On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

It's not normal that, when you close your eyes and listen to the news, too often the political back-and-forth in America sounds too much…

— John F. Kerry

It is no surprise that neither Hillary Clinton nor the Obama State Department agrees with our request to depose Mrs. Clinton concerning her exclusive…

— Tom Fitton

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known…

— Joseph McCarthy

“...Of course there was no word in the American papers, and no one at the State Department had a clue- at least not that…

— Naomi Benaron

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Donald Trump