Morgan Ortagus Quotes

I thought Colin Powell did a fine job as secretary of state.

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

I believe that my experience as an HBO executive responsible for global marketing and communications should serve our country well as we tell America's story in Spain and Andorra.

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

I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

I'll be one of the spokespeople, one of the people who sells the Administration's plans.

A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the flattery on academia - each of which Mr. Bush has signally failed to do.

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

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.

I don't often get angered by the things press spokespeople say. Most of these people have difficult jobs and are often forced to be the public faces of policies they had nothing to do with creating.

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.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

The Secretary of State exists only to recognize the existence of a world which Congress would rather ignore ... Since the first day the Senate existed, it has always intrigued against the Secretary of State ...

The Secretary of State has always stood as much alone as the historian. Required to look far ahead and around him, he measures forces unknown to party managers, and has found Congress more or less hostile since Congress first sat.

One of the reasons we don't have a serious foreign policy is that we pay too much attention to public opinion.

Diplomacy is a frequently neglected imperative.

Sometimes heads of state have to make statements for [local] public consumption.

The term “public diplomacy” is often a euphemism for propaganda.

The job of a diplomat is to be the eyes and the ears of the country he or she is representing.

U. S. Foreign Policy is usually largely reactive.

We must be careful about speech writers making foreign policy.

I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

There is a responsibility as president to choose your words carefully, especially on foreign policy, and to speak as clearly as possible.

Nominating Susan Rice for Secretary of State is a mistake not just because of her Sunday show deceptions but because her tenure as America's representative to the U.N. has been unworthy of a promotion.