Secretary Quotes

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The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch and asks your opinion, you're sunk.

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

Let a Secretary of Peace be appointed.

If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all costs'. what is the point of having one?

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments.

If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.

I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here.

A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy.

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary.

I'm a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don't even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Hillary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account.

I write every morning. Two hours. Then I take a break and become my own secretary for a few hours. If I am "hot" I write in the afternoon and at night too.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

If you look at the Forbes 400, they are paying a lower rate, accounting payroll taxes, than their secretary or - whomever around their office.

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.

Happy is the man with a wife to tell him what to do and a secretary to do it.

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room.

I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.

I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs.

What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.