Foreign Service Quotes

• Cualquier embajador o funcionario del Servicio Exterior que tenga la cabeza bien puesta sabe que la posición de Estados Unidos en el mundo depende mucho más de nuestra capacidad para competir en los mercados mundiales.

  Lawrence Eagleburger

  World, Ambassadors, Ability

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• In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals. They do require constant vigilance lest the convictions that led them into a penurious career tempt them to preempt decision-making.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Hands, Careers, Decision

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• Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived and carried it out over 225 years. You experience the challenges, successes, and foibles. Over time, the Foreign Service evolved into a professional cadre serving the public and presidents, often at the peril of their lives. Anyone interested in understanding our diplomacy, what makes it tick, and how it strives to serve the public interest should read this masterful history.

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Eye, Years, Understanding

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• You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Growing Up, Humor

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him; He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Mean, People, Missionary

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• You see, the Foreign Service of the United States has grown so unbelievably in the last twenty years, and the requirements for admission are so high, and yet an awful lot of the work, I'd say fully 50-percent of the work in the Foreign Service abroad, is really routine work. All this is something that no one has licked.... You get a certain amount of discontent. It's bad for morale.

  Charles E. Bohlen

  Years, Routine Work, Twenties

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• The [Donald] Trump folks chose not to keep [Dan Fried] on. He was actually - I said he was actually the third-most senior diplomat in the foreign service.

  Rachel Maddow

  Senior, Diplomats, Said

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• The [Donald] Trump administration got rid of the number one and number two most senior people ahead of [Dan fried] in the foreign service, so that did make him the most senior person still standing - but now he`s out, too.

  Rachel Maddow

  Senior, Two, Numbers

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• After [Dan Fried] was initially hired into the Foreign Service in 1977, five subsequent presidents of both parties thought it would be a good idea to keep him on. That his deep understanding, his knowledge of all the players and so many of the secrets it would make him an indispensable asset, particularly when it comes to dealing with Russia.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Player, Deep Understanding

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• I first became interested in Ho Chi Minh in 1964-1965 while I was stationed at the U.S. Embassy in South Vietnam as a foreign service officer with the Department of State. The government in Saigon was at the point of collapse and the [Lyndon] Johnson administration was preparing to send U.S. combat troops to prevent a communist victory there. I became convinced that the U.S. effort would not succeed because of the lack of conviction in the Saigon government compared to the discipline and sense of self-sacrifice among the Viet Cong.

  William J. Duiker

  Sacrifice, Government, Self

  Fuente: www.sonshi.com

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• I was born in Australia and grew up in the foreign services. I had this kind of trans-Pacific life. I think I was always sort of oriented towards here's Australia and here's America and here's the Pacific.

  Jane Alison

  Thinking, America, Australia

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I went into the foreign service because I was interested in politics. But, in 1991, when I joined, I didn't see much of an opportunity to be involved in federal politics as a Conservative. We were at the tail end of the Brian Mulroney era. I wanted to do something non-partisan as a way of preparing for a role in our politics later.

  Chris Alexander

  Opportunity, Roles, Tails

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• Mis 40 años en el servicio exterior y las carreras de muchos de mis amigos se asociaron a la caída del Imperio Soviético y a la puesta en orden de lo que vino después: la construcción de una Europa entera, libre y en paz. Es difícil recordar hoy lo improbable que parecía la victoria en la Guerra Fría.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Fall, Careers

  Fuente: www.msnbc.com

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• Sí, mi padre estaba en el servicio exterior. Vivimos en India, Indonesia y África, y viajamos mucho desde esos lugares. Yo tenía 10 años cuando volvimos, y me sentía como el chico raro. No lo aprecié hasta más tarde. Pero al volver no conocía ningún programa de televisión ni música, lo que era aún peor.

  Dylan Walsh

  Papá, Tv Shows, Guy

  Dylan Walsh habla de su papel en "Inolvidable" y de su trabajo con Poppy Montgomery", por Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. 07 de febrero de 2012.

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• Cuando era más joven, mi padre trabajaba en el servicio exterior y vivimos en Nigeria, Panamá y Londres, pero la mayor parte de mi infancia transcurrió en el Sur y en Washington D.C. De pequeña me picó el gusanillo de viajar y he ido de aquí para allá.

  Nicole Beharie

  Father, Littles, London

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• Let me be clear: I'm a believer in a robust military, which is essential for backing up diplomacy. But the implication is that we need a balanced tool chest of diplomatic and military tools alike. Instead, we have a billionaire military and a pauper diplomacy. The U.S. military now has more people in its marching bands than the State Department has in its foreign service - and that's preposterous.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Military, People, Band

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