Rachel Maddow Quotes

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

Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

Everything I did as secretary of state was in furtherance of America's interests and our values.

I was talking to a friend about Santorum. He said, 'For all my years in the State Department, I know one thing. Terrorists, what they fear most is a guy in a sweater vest.'

If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

United States foreign policy, which includes national security, is literally disintegrating before our eyes.

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

The ability of the Congress of the United States to have any strategic view [of foreign policy] is virtually nil.

Foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Congress cannot and should not run foreign policy.

We have to begin having the State Department in on joint plans so that our foreign policy and military plans would be in step …. I will not go along with the past practice of not informing the State Department as to Army and Navy joint plans ...

You're not hearing people like Madeleine Albright argue that the budget of the State Department should be as large as the Defense Department. The Pentagon is going to be larger by its nature. It's going to have more people.

It has become starkly apparent to me that we lack any sort of strategic foreign policy view, and when I say 'we,' I mean the country in general, but in particular, the Republican Party.

I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy.

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

There is a widespread view among the liberal intelligentsia to the effect that Henry Kissinger, U.S. National Security Advisor from 1969 to 1975 and Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977, was a bad man. That may even be an understatement. In this fashionable consensus, he is not just a bad man: he is a war criminal.