State department Quotes

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

— Dana Rohrabacher

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

— Mort Sahl

I worked at the State Department.

— Andy Kim

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Antony Blinken

I've made my own comments as to our vales as well in a speech I gave to the State Department.

— Rex W. Tillerson

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

— Michael Hastings

We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.

— John Bolton

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

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

— Donna Brazile

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

— Donald Trump

“...Of course there was no word in the American papers, and no one at the State Department had a clue- at least…

— Naomi Benaron

[Dan Fried ]is a pillar of the U.S. State Department. He's part of its institutional memory. He has been in the room…

— Rachel Maddow

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…

— John F. Kerry

I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very…

— Arthur Miller

The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.

— Ferdinand Marcos

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the…

— Mike Pence

Also, as a result of the involvement of American foundations that have backing from the U.S. State Department in Iranian internal politics,…

— Mohammad Marandi

The State Department has been your beat for so long. It has always smelled like Bob Corker was the in case of…

— Chuck Todd

I think that is a responsibility we all share as Americans. But as State Department employees, we have a special duty to…

— Hillary Clinton

Russia and [Vladimir] Putin's antipathy toward Hillary Clinton from her time as secretary of state, Russia's antipathy and loathing and fear of…

— Rachel Maddow

The State Department allowed Hillary Clinton to remove and destroy government email records, and now we've figured out the State Department is…

— Tom Fitton

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the…

— Hillary Clinton

The thing on cyber-security. Yes, it was - every government employee goes through this training. You do hear at corporations, as well.…

— Dana Perino

Given how we know Russia feels about the State Department, seeing what's happening to the State Department under this current [Donald Trump]…

— Rachel Maddow

The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy…

— Marianne Williamson

I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in…

— Elliott Abrams

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

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Dizzy Gillespie

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

“- 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

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

— Roger Ailes

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

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

— Thomas Roberts

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

— Donald Trump

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

— Louis J. Freeh