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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.
In America, we have a government that some people believe is too big and overbearing, yet, when it comes to guns, we might as well have no government at all.
The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.
By the way, in Mrs. Clinton's returns, you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well.
For the state of our union to be strong, we need to place value in Americans.
The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function.
I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.