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Foreign Service Quotes
Childhoods and careers built abroad.
These quotes come from people shaped by the Foreign Service - children of diplomats who grew up in Nigeria, Panama, and the Near East, and officers who describe the job's real demands overseas.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Formulation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.
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- Nov 07, 2020