“I’ve always told people interested in what we do that there are there’s one key work in what we do and it’s service. I don’t care if it’s the Foreign Service for those who have a vocation to serve abroad or it’s the Civil Service. I think people working for State have a distinct ethos and it comes across.”
“I was one person, but I was representing the United States government and it really hit home, and to me — it made a huge difference just seeing how a young woman with such a small part can do such a big thing.”
“I’ve got a passion for effective public administration. I think that one thing that really needs to be focused on in the Department and all across the public sector is making sure that all of our assets are maintained effectively and efficiently.”
“To me there’s something unique about consular work. There is no other government in the world that takes care of its citizens the way America does — so I feel pretty privileged to be an American consular officer.”
“I think of the livelihoods of the people who work back in America, the people that I grew up with, the people that I serve as a public servant. And what I do overseas makes it so that they have a better economic future and their children and my children have better economic future.”