Page 205 - Leadership Secrets of Hillary Clinton

LEADERSHIP SECRETS OF HILLARY CLINTON

service professionals, and development experts are doing
work essential to our nation’s strength—whether helping
American businesses make inroads in new markets; being on
the other end of the phone at a United States embassy when
an American citizen needs help beyond our shores; doing
the delicate work of diplomacy and development with for-
eign governments that leads to arms control and trade
agreements, peace treaties, and post-conflict reconstruction,
greater human rights and empowerment, broader cultural
understanding and stronger alliances.
The State Department is a large, multidimensional
organization. But it is not a placid or idle bureaucracy, as
some would like to paint it. It is an outpost for American
values that protects our citizens and safeguards our demo-
cratic institutions in times both turbulent and tame. State
Department employees also offer a lifeline of hope and
help—often the only lifeline—for people in foreign lands
who are oppressed, silenced, and marginalized. Whether
they are an economic officer in a large embassy, or an aid
worker in the field, or a clerk in a distant consulate, or a
country officer working late in Washington, they do their
work so that we may all live in peace and security. We must
not shortchange them, or ourselves, by denying them the
resources they need.
One of my first priorities is to make sure that the State
Department and USAID have the resources they need, and
I will be back to make the case to Congress for full fund-

x 194 z