“You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Quoted in conversation with Charles Frankel, High on Foggy Bottom: an outsider's inside view of the Government (1969), p. 11

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