Cases Quote by Thomas Jefferson

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch…

— Thomas Jefferson

You have to understand that under One Country, Two Systems, we are a separate customs authority in the same way we are a separate…

— Carrie Lam

“It is important to remember that bureaucratic politics and rivalry are not just matters of competing for primacy in foreign policy - although they…

— Howard J. Wiarda

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side…

— Lewis H. Lapham

Here is an example: while resolving current issues, our American colleagues made a proposal on the Syrian settlement but then suddenly declared at the…

— Vladimir Putin

I've never had a choice of which government department I would hold. I've always been assigned a department by the Taoiseach.

— Leo Varadkar

[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control…

— James Madison

In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the…

— John C. Calhoun

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

Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the…

— Robert Toombs

I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.

— William P. Leahy

I wouldn't say it's a split. It's a difference of emphasis. It does exist between, I would say, the State Department and the Defense…

— Henry A. Kissinger