Careers Quote by Henry A. Kissinger

What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make…

— Lawrence Eagleburger

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and…

— Evan G. Galbraith

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very…

— Harold MacMillan

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

— Madeleine Albright

“Services rendered to a country in a diplomatic line can be known only to a few – if they are important and they become…

— Lynne Withey

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

— Evan G. Galbraith

In fact, I worked at the Pentagon in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. I've seen the massive operation that the Secretary needs…

— Andy Kim

You see, the Foreign Service of the United States has grown so unbelievably in the last twenty years, and the requirements for admission are…

— Charles E. Bohlen

The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought…

— Leon Panetta

A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.

— Carl von Clausewitz

Clearly, the qualities Poles admire in a secretary of state - foreign languages, diplomatic experience, even sense of humor - are emphatically not those…

— Anne Applebaum

Foreign intelligence services rely on manipulating vulnerabilities over time - like greed, or fear of exposure of a secret - to puppeteer those under…

— Asha Rangappa