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.

Evan G. Galbraith

Big Department Desperately Foreign Foreign Policy Important Left Needs Officers Play Policy Role Service State State Department Too Up

Related Quotes

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.

— Samantha Power

EnterpriseExplicitlyForeign

My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.

— Jennifer Gilmore

AboutAffairsAid

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

By this I mean that a political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.

— George F. Kennan

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security

— Henry Kissinger