Hillary Clinton Quotes

I don't do e-mails.

It was the view of the people in the Department of State that the handling of Yemen affairs from Aden was too much of a burden on the then Consul, so an additional officer was named to the American Consulate at Aden to handle Yemeni affairs. I was designated for that task.

In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or 7 you can get a huge amount done by 11 and have the rest of the day off if you want to, though I have to check my accumulating e-mails. No one ever sends me horrible e-mails. Although some of my books are supposed to be hated, no one ever tells me.

I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.

We've had administrations where our State Department was an outpost of the British Foreign Office for altogether too long.

Secrets are good in the internal competition of Washington. The Secret war in Cambodia was secret so that the State Department could not object to it. The Cambodians knew there was a war.

Confidentially the State Department is in a bind. Our task would be simple if the reports of the atrocities could be declared untrue or even exaggerated but the evidence, alas, is irrefutable and the Secretary of State wants to avoid giving the impression that while the United States is willing to intervene actively to protect its commercial interests, it is not willing to move on behalf of the Christian minorities.

There are a lot of starry eyed State Department boys busting to raise the standard of living of Arabs who should be all killed off… no State Department people should be permitted in a theater of war, nor at the peace treaty

The Defense Department has a great deal of influence on foreign policy, and State has very little impact on defense policy.

I go back to Washington every year to see the President and I get my orders directly from him—not from those pipsqueaks [at the State Department.]

There is little incentive for initiative just now: the [State] Department seems to take no interest; we never receive comments on our work and many of our questions go unanswered.

One of these days I’m going to blast President Truman’s State Department wide open.

State Department perverts ... bright young men who were born with silver spoons in their mouths ... selling the Nation out.

The FBI is full of Fordham graduates keeping tabs on Harvard Men in the State Department.

There's too little sense in the State Department of why things happened.

I am not bound by instructions from the State Department. I am a member of the President's cabinet and take instructions only from him.

Even if there were only one communist in the State Department, that would still be one communist too many.

Overruling the Joint Chiefs of staff, overruling the State Department, overruling the CIA, President Reagan Authorized providing Stinger Missiles to the Mujahedeen Afghanis.

The Department of State has become a concession hunting agency for the Standard Oil Company

Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.

There is no lie too improbable, no distortion too great, no smear campaign too dirty for the State Department and the media to embrace.

We cannot clean up the mess in Washington, balance the budget, reduce taxes, check creeping Socialism, tell what is muscle or fat in our sprawling rearmament programs, purge subversives from our State Department, unless we come to grips with our foreign policy, upon which all other policies depend

The U.S. State Department has carefully framed its support of such projects as promoting free speech and human rights, but it is clear that the policy is aimed at destabilizing national governments.

Every other agency involved in foreign affairs jealously guards its prerogatives whenever State makes the slightest movement to broaden its role.

In Washington, the funds available to the several other agencies for their overseas operations exceed those available to the State Department; the White House has not always given the State Department the necessary support.