Bill Burns Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Bill Burns There is the particularly pernicious practice of going after individual career officers, either because they worked on controversial issues in the last administration, or as in the case of Masha Yovanovitch, a terrific apolitical career diplomat who was doing her job extraordinarily well, were attacked, deeply unfairly, for political reasons, we have career people who did their jobs, followed their instructions, served their country loyally, and they are being treated as pawns in a political struggle. Bill Burns politics There is a quite reckless and dangerous effort underway not only to sideline career expertise but to sideline the department as an institution. Bill Burns politics He'll play the long game on this, he'll see this as an investment, as one step down the road toward an ... easing of outside pressure. Bill Burns top-news
