#state department

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

— Jeffrey Sachs

#development #diplomatic #directed #experts #house

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#allowed #am #because #colonial #could

Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#aid #cheaper #department #dollar #east

Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#iraqis #occupier #our #own #percent

I believe the military should be wary of diplomacy until war is declared; then the State Department should keep its nose out and let the military do whatever is necessary to win. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#declared #department #diplomacy #i #i believe

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

— Louis A. Johnson

#america #campaign #department #guard #must

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#classified #definition #department #happen #i

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

— Erik Larson

#aware #department #extent #i #levels

In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#bureaucrats #case #department #door #drive

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

— Arthur Miller

#american culture #certainly #culture #department #difficult