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国务卿马可·卢比奥对员工的讲话
马可·卢比奥，国务卿 2025 年 1 月 21 日
https://www.state.gov/secretary-marco-rubio-remarks-to-employees/
2025 年 1 月 21 日，国务卿马可·卢比奥抵达国务院后向员工发表讲话
卢比奥国务卿：谢谢。谢谢。谢谢。
非常感谢。谢谢。今天能和大家在一起是一种祝福和荣幸。我想把你们介绍给我的家人。我想让你们认识他们。我——我们已经管理他们二十多年了——（笑声）——而且还在继续。所以——今天早些时候，当副总统宣誓就职时，我说过：我最重要的工作，我相信我们任何人最重要的工作，是我们在家里做的工作。我的意思不只是国内的政治，还包括我们的生活。
我为我的妻子和四个孩子以及他们的支持感到骄傲。我的妻子珍妮特（欢呼和掌声）。她的父母从哥伦比亚移民到这里。这里有来自哥伦比亚的人吗？有人报道哥伦比亚吗？（欢呼）然后是我的大女儿阿曼达。阿曼达，问好。（掌声）接下来是丹妮拉。（掌声）现在是安东尼。（掌声）还有我们最小的女儿多米尼克。（掌声）
所以这三个孩子都在上学，也就是上大学，甚至有工作。我们还有工作；他做得很好。（笑声）他是高中三年级学生。显然，我的家人也在这里，是他们让这一切成为可能。珍妮特的妈妈玛丽亚在，我的姐妹芭芭拉和维罗妮卡也在，还有许多来自迈阿密的朋友今天也来到了这里。我很感激。谢谢你们。
我还想感谢我以前在国会的同事，他们也是拨款人和授权人。所以我认为这很重要——（笑声）。我认识他们三个人很久了，巧合的是，佛罗里达州在众议院的授权和拨款方面很有代表性。马里奥·迪亚兹-巴拉特，我——（掌声）——我是他的私人朋友；我们曾一起在佛罗里达州立法机构任职——事实上，他们坐在一起。马里奥，当年谁能想到呢？现在我们在这里。还有两个古巴裔美国人。如果有第三个，他们会称之为阴谋，但只有两个，所以我们很顺利。 （笑声）
国会女议员 Lois Frankel ——我们也曾一起在立法机构任职。我再说一遍，我知道这一点 ——（掌声）。我知道这看起来很可疑 —— 她恰好也来自佛罗里达州，而且他们恰好 ——（笑声） —— 她恰好是该委员会的成员。当然还有我的同事 —— Brian Mast，也感谢你们的到来。（掌声）我请求他们以个人恩惠的身份善待我们派去作证并出席他们委员会的每个人，所以 ——（笑声） —— 当他们起草拨款法案并通过法律时，请善待我们。而且 —— 但我们 —— 我真的很感激你们加入我们，因为我们的伙伴关系至关重要。
我要感谢特朗普总统提名我。能够担任这个职务、来到这里，我感到非常荣幸和荣幸；坦率地说，监督世界历史上最伟大、最有效、最有才华、最有经验的外交使团的职责就设在这座大楼里。（掌声）
重要的是要记住，他们显然服务于我们的国家利益和外交政策；他们也服务于美国人。作为参议院成员，我们经常会接到电话——在很短的一段时间内，关于护照的恐慌电话，就像你们记得的那个时代，每个人都忘记了护照过期了，他们的游轮是在星期六，而现在是星期五下午 5 点。（笑声）所以我们——你们为什么笑？是吗——你知道这是真的。它发生了。（笑声）当然——但我们也为美国人服务，他们有时发现自己在海外丢失了护照，甚至更糟的是发生了一些可怕或悲惨的事情，他们的家人受到了影响。所以这很重要——这是一项重要的任务，我知道这对我们的使命至关重要。
除此之外，这是美国的面孔。事实上，如果你仔细想想，对于地球上的许多人来说，他们与美国的唯一互动——大多数人永远不会来这里——在很多情况下，他们与美国的唯一互动——无论是领导人还是普通人——将是那些在国外为我们服务的男男女女，他们以极大的正直和奉献精神这样做。他们实际上是我们国家的面孔——无论是通过我们提供的援助还是通过服务。
我也想打个招呼——这是在某个地方直播的吗？比如，我们所有任务中的人都在观看这个？很好。我想感谢他们。我知道他们今天不能和我们在一起，而且根据他们在世界的哪个地方，天气可能没有那么冷——至少对佛罗里达人来说是这样。（笑声）所以我还认为
这个组织通过在室内举办这些活动展现了它的卓越——（笑声）——它已经展现出来了，我们也对此心存感激。但我想告诉你们，我要感谢你们——所有在海外和国外服务的人，有些在强大而稳定的地方，有些在更脆弱和危险的地方。
我还想做一件特别的事情——我还想感谢当地雇用的工作人员，那些与我们一起工作的国家的国民。（掌声）没有他们的帮助，没有他们的支持，我们就不可能完成我们的使命，而且在很多方面，多年后，我遇到了一些人——确切地说，遇到了在美国做生意或以游客身份来访的人，他们会告诉我，他们是我们驻外使团的当地雇员——他们是当地雇员——因此，他们对我们国家的热爱是永无止境的。
我是这个部门的新人。今天实际上是我上班的第一天，但??我对它并不陌生。我和你们中的许多人有过交流——无论是在国外旅行还是在日常工作中。我现在的工作不同了。我们的工作在某些方面也会不同。在我们的共和国，选民决定我们国家的发展方向，无论是在国内还是国外，他们选举唐纳德·J·特朗普为我们的总统，在外交政策方面，他们有一个非常明确的使命。这个使命就是确保我们的外交政策以一件事为中心，那就是促进我们的国家利益，他们在竞选中明确将国家利益定义为任何能让我们更强大、更安全或更繁荣的事情，这将是我们的使命。这将是我们在世界各地的工作，即确保我们的外交政策能够促进美国的国家利益。
我希望地球上的每个国家都能促进他们的国家利益。在我们的国家利益与他们的国家利益一致的情况下——我希望会有很多——我们期待与他们合作。从很多方面来看，特朗普总统昨天在演讲中再次提到，他制定的全球政策的首要目标是促进和平、避免冲突，在这方面，没有哪个机构比这个机构更重要。事实上，这是它的创始原则和宗旨。这就是我们努力做的事情——促进世界和平，因为这符合我们的国家利益。没有和平，我们就很难成为一个强大的国家、一个繁荣的国家和一个富裕的国家。
但挑战也会存在。我们认识到，不幸的是，由于我们的天性，人类在相互交往时，有时会发生冲突。我们将努力防止和避免冲突，但绝不会以牺牲我们的国家安全、国家利益和我们作为一个国家和民族的核心价值观为代价。归根结底，我们是一个建立在强大原则之上的国家，而这个强大原则就是人人生而平等，因为我们的权利来自上帝，我们的造物主，而不是我们的法律，不是我们的政府。
我们希望有一天全世界都能生活在这样的原则之下，我们将永远——永远——坚定地捍卫这一原则——永远不会以牺牲国家利益为代价，永远不会以牺牲务实的外交政策为代价，永远不会以牺牲现实为代价，即在外交政策中，我们的选择往往不是在两个——一个坏的选择和一个好的选择之间。有时在外交关系中，我们的选择是两个坏的选择，我们只是想找出其中哪一个最不坏。这很不幸，但这是事实。这是一项艰巨的工作。这是我们的工作。我们会努力把它做好。这是本机构的核心使命，在唐纳德·特朗普担任总统期间，这将是核心使命，我们将有效地代表他。
我还希望这个机构——我的意思不是——现在它无关紧要，而是我希望它回到它应该在的位置。我希望国务院成为美国与世界交往的中心——不仅是我们如何执行，而且如何制定。外交政策领域一些最聪明的人就住在这栋大楼里和这个政府里，我们需要确保这里的环境有利于创造力、大胆、新想法，有利于认识我们生活的动态世界——这个世界的变化比以往任何时候都快。我们需要走在前面。
当主要官员甚至副手聚集在一起的时候，我希望国务院能为总统提供最好的想法和最好的选择，然后我希望我们能够比政府中的任何机构更好地执行它们。这也将是我的任务。我时不时地从国会的角度观察，两党政府
在外交关系中，有时国务院被降级为次要角色，因为其他机构行动更快，或者看起来更大胆或更有创意。这不是你们的错，但我们会改变这种状况。我们希望成为中心，成为制定外交政策的核心，因为我们将拥有所有机构中最好的想法，因为我们将比我们政府中的任何其他机构更好、更快、更有效地执行这些想法。我知道我们有合适的团队来做这件事。
世界上没有其他机构——我们政府中没有其他机构——我更愿意领导这个机构，因为这里聚集了众多人才，全世界都在关注着我们。这将是我们的使命，我希望我们能够共同完成它。会有变化，但这些变化不是为了破坏，不是为了惩罚，也不是为了脱离现实——这些变化是因为我们需要成为一个 21 世纪的机构，能够以许多人使用的陈词滥调来行动，以与时俱进的速度前进。但我们需要比以往任何时候都更快地行动，因为世界的变化速度比以往任何时候都快，我们必须有一种观点，有些人称之为“环顾四周”，但我们真正需要思考的是，五年、七年、十年或十五年后我们会在哪里。
当今人类面临的一些问题没有先例。它们没有历史先例。我们面临的一些挑战没有历史先例。我们可以将它与另一个时代、另一个时间进行比较，但它们并不相同。事情的发展速度比以往任何时候都快。想想过去五年世界发生了多大的变化。想象一下未来 25 年它将发生多大的变化。我最真诚的希望和祈祷是，作为一个国家，我们能够为子孙后代留下一个比我们留下的更安全、更美好的国家和地球，而你们将是实现这一目标的重要组成部分。
能够领导这个机构是一种荣幸。我希望以出色和正直的态度完成这项工作，比任何人都更加努力地工作。这并不容易，因为在我之前有一些非常勤奋的人。（笑声）但我知道我们能胜任这项任务，我很高兴我能胜任这份工作，我很高兴我在第一天就担任这份工作。我在 9:15 左右宣誓就职。我没有搞砸誓言。（笑声）我们准备好开始工作了，我知道你们也一样。谢谢。上帝保佑你们所有人。上帝保佑我们的国家。谢谢。（欢呼和掌声）
Secretary Marco Rubio Remarks to Employees
SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Thank you. It’s a blessing and an honor to be with all of you today. And I want to introduce you to my family. I want you to meet them. I – we’ve been able to manage them for the last – (laughter) – twenty-something years and counting. And so it’s – I said this earlier today when the Vice President swore me in: My most important job, I believe the most important job any of us will ever have, is the job we do at home. And I don’t mean that – both here at home domestically in our politics, but in our lives.
And I’m very proud of my wife and my four children and their support. My wife Jeanette, who – (cheers and applause). Her parents immigrated here from Colombia. Anybody here from Colombia? Anybody cover Colombia? (Cheers.) And then my oldest daughter, Amanda. Say hello, Amanda. (Applause.) And then came Daniella. (Applause.) And now Anthony. (Applause.) And our youngest, Dominick. (Applause.)
So these three – these three are in school, meaning college and even jobs. We’ve got – we’re still working; he’s doing good. (Laughter.) He’s a junior in high school. And obviously, my family beyond that is here, who made this possible. Jeanette’s mom Maria is here, and my sisters Barbara and Veronica are here, and a lot of friends that came from Miami who joined us here today. And I’m grateful. And thank you.
I also want to recognize my former colleagues from the congressional branch, who also happen to be appropriators and authorizers. And so I thought it was important – (laughter). Three people I’ve known for a long time, and by coincidence Florida is very well represented in the authorization and appropriations in the House. Mario Díaz-Balart, who I – (applause) – who I’ve known as a personal friend; we served together in the Florida legislature – in fact, sat next to each other on the floor. Who would’ve thought, Mario, back in the day? And now here we are. And two Cuban Americans. If we had a third, they’d call it a conspiracy, but there’s only two, so we’re in shape. (Laughter.)
Congresswoman Lois Frankel – we also served in the legislature together. Again, I know this – (applause). I know it looks suspicious – she just happens to be from Florida as well, and they happen to – (laughter) – she happens to be on that committee. And then of course my colleague, who – Brian Mast, who – thank you for being here as well. (Applause.) I have asked them as a personal favor to be nice to each of you who we send over to testify and appear before their committees, so – (laughter) – and to be nice to us when they write those appropriations bills and pass those laws. And – but we are – I’m really grateful you joined us, because our partnership will be critically important.
I want to thank President Trump for nominating me. This is an extraordinary honor and a privilege to serve in this role, to be here; frankly, to oversee the greatest, the most effective, the most talented, the most experienced diplomatic corps in the history of the world resides in this building. (Applause.)
And it’s important to remember that obviously they serve our national interest and our foreign policy; they also serve Americans. And as a member of the Senate, we often would get calls – for a brief period of time, panicked calls about passports, as you remember that era when everyone forgot their passport expired and their cruise was on Saturday, and it’s Friday 5:00 p.m. (Laughter.) So we were – why are you guys chuckling? Is that – you know it’s true. It’s happened. (Laughter.) And then of course – but we also serve Americans that sometimes find themselves overseas and lost their passport, or even worse something terrible or tragic happened and their families are impacted by it. And so it’s important – it’s an important task and one that I know is critical to our mission.
Beyond that, this is the face of the United States. In fact, if you think about it, for many people on this planet, their only interaction with America – most will never travel here – their only interaction with America in many cases – whether they be leaders or everyday people – will be the men and women who serve us abroad and do so with tremendous integrity and dedication. They are literally the face of our country – whether it’s through the aid we’ve provided or through the services.
I also want to say hello – and is this being livestreamed somewhere? Like, people watching this in all of our missions? Good. I want to thank them. I know they can’t be with us here today and depending on where they are in the world, it’s probably not as cold as it’s been – at least for a Floridian. (Laughter.) So I also think the brilliance of this organization shows by hosting these events indoors which – (laughter) – it’s already showing, and we’re grateful for that as well. But I want to tell you that I want to thank you – all of those who were serving overseas and abroad, some in places that are strong and stable and others that are more tenuous and dangerous.
And I want to do something also special – I want to also thank the locally employed staff, the nationals of those countries who work with us. (Applause.) Without their help, without their support, it would be impossible for us to conduct our mission, and in many ways years later I’ve run into people – literally run into people in the United States that are either conducting business or visiting as tourists or what have you, and they will tell me they were a locally employed in our – they were locally – local employees of our missions abroad, and as a result their love for our country is never-ending.
I am new to this department. Today is my first day on the job literally, but I am not a stranger to it. I have interacted with many of you – both in my travels abroad and in our daily functions. My job now is different. And our job in some ways will be different. In our republic, the voters decide the course of our nation, both domestically and abroad, and they have elected Donald J. Trump as our President when it comes to foreign policy on a very clear mission. And that mission is to ensure that our foreign policy is centered on one thing and that is the advancement of our national interest, which they have clearly defined through his campaign as anything that makes us stronger or safer or more prosperous, and that will be our mission. That will be our job across the world, is to ensure that we have a foreign policy that advances the national interest of the United States.
I expect every nation on earth to advance their national interests. And in those instances – and I hope there will be many — in which our national interests and theirs align, we look forward to working with them. This is in many ways – and again, it was referenced by President Trump yesterday in his speech that he designs – that his overriding goal for global policy is the promotion of peace, the avoidance of conflict, and no agency will more – be more critical in that regard than this one. In fact, it’s its founding principle and purpose. And that’s what we endeavor to do – to promote peace around the world, because that’s in our national interest. Without peace, it is hard to be a strong nation, a prosperous nation, and one that is better off.
But there will also be challenges. We recognize that there will be those times unfortunately as humans interact with one another because of our nature that there will be conflict. We will seek to prevent them and avoid them, but never at the expense of our national security, never at the expense of our national interest, and never at the expense of our core values as a nation and as a people. We are – at the end of the day – a nation founded on a powerful principle, and that powerful principle is that all men are created equal, because our rights come from God our Creator – not from our laws, not from our governments.
And we hope the entire world can one day live under that, and we will always – always – be strong defenders of that principle – never at the expense of our national interest, never at the expense of pragmatic foreign policy, never at the expense of the reality that oftentimes in foreign policy our choices are not between – are between two – a bad option and a good option. Sometimes in foreign relations our options are two bad ones, and we’re just trying to figure out which one of them is least bad. And that’s unfortunate, but it is true. And that’s a tough job. It’s our job. And we’ll seek to do it right and well. That is the core mission of this agency, and it will be the core mission while Donald Trump is President, and we will be effective on his behalf.
I also want this agency to be – and I don’t mean – not that it’s irrelevant now, but I want it to be where it belongs. I want the Department of State to be at the center of how America engages the world – not just how we execute on it, but on how we formulate it. Some of the brightest minds in foreign policy reside within this building and within this government, and we need to ensure that we have an environment here that’s conducive to creativity, to boldness, to new ideas, to recognizing the dynamic world in which we live – one that is changing faster than it has ever changed before. And we need to be ahead of it.
When the time comes for the principals to gather or even deputies, I want the Department of State to have the best ideas and the best options available for the President, and then I want us to be able to execute them better than any agency in our government. That will also be a task of mine. I have watched from the congressional side from time to time, administrations in both parties, in which sometimes the Department of State has been sort of relegated to a secondary role because some other agency can move faster or seems to be bolder or more creative. It’s not your fault, but we’re going to change that. We want to be at the centerpiece, and we want to be at the core of how we formulate foreign policy, because we’re going to have the best ideas of any agency and because we’re going to execute it better and faster and more effectively than any other agency in our government. And I know we have the right team to do it.
There’s no other agency in the world – there’s no other agency in our government – that I’d rather lead because of the talent that’s collected here in this room and those watching around the world. That will be our mission, and I hope we will be able to do it together. There will be changes, but the changes are not meant to be destructive, they’re not meant to be punitive, they’re not out of – the changes will be because we need to be a 21st century agency that can move, by a cliche that’s used by many, at the speed of relevance. But we need to move faster than we ever have because the world is changing faster than we ever have, and we have to have a view that some say is called “look around the corner,” but we really need to be thinking about where are we going to be in five, seven, 10, or 15 years.
Some of the issues that confront humanity today have no precedent. They have no historic precedent. Some of the challenges we face have no historic precedent. We can compare it to another era, to another time, but they’re not the same. Things are moving faster than ever. Think about how much the world has changed in the last five years. Imagine how much it will change over the next 25 years. And my sincerest hope and my prayer is that we will, as a nation, be able to leave the future generations with a country and a planet safer and better than the one that was left for us, and you will be a big part of achieving that goal.
It is an honor to be able to lead this agency. I hope to do it with distinction and with integrity, working harder than anyone ever has at this role. And that will not be easy, because some pretty hard-working people have come before me. (Laughter.) But I know that we are up to the task, and I’m glad that I’m in the job, that I’m in the job on day one. I was sworn in at about 9:15. I didn’t mess up the oath. (Laughter.) And we’re ready to go to work and I know you are as well. Thank you. God bless all of you. God bless our country. Thank you. (Cheering and applause.)
