Jack Keane

Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.

American General

Michelle Malkin

In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.

American Writer

Enes Kanter

Constant pressure by Turkish consulates across the United States, as well as pervasive and continual harassment by the government in Turkey, has so far failed to stifle my dissent. As they increase the pressure, I raise my voice.

Turkish Athlete

Bob Livingston

We'd play at the Ambassador's house for an invited group of dignitaries from the government that might have gone to school in America; to the U.S. Consulate that invites certain people that they're trying to target.

American Politician

Bill Dedman

Less than a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida attacks were continuing: the firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April, a bomb outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi in June.

American Journalist

David Ignatius

The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi has become a political football in the presidential campaign, with all the grandstanding and misinformation that entails.

Heather Wilson

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

Rand Paul

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

Erich Leinsdorf

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs.

Austrian Celebrity

Lindsey Graham

The president of the United States let the consulate in Libya become a death trap.

A consulate handles visa applications, passport issues and assists nationals from its country.

Official Function

Understand the difference: consulates focus on individual issues, whereas embassies deal with broader diplomatic matters.

Not an Embassy

Consulates often organize events to promote their culture and support expat communities.

Cultural Events

 If refugees were simply allowed to travel directly and seek asylum in Europe, we would avoid that, and there's a way of doing that through something called a humanitarian visa, that allows people to collect a visa at an embassy or a consulate in a neighboring country

Our refugee system is...

 Singapore and Spain. In 1936, while Neruda was working at the consulate in Madrid, civil war broke out and the government was overthrown by a fascist military dictatorship.

Romance and revolution:...

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