#foreign service

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people. ↗

— Evan G. Galbraith

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Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

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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. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

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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. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

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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

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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

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