One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.
I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.
I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.
I've worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.
Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.
I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.
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