Secretary Quotes

I would not have imagined being asked to be Secretary of State, it was a great honor to serve with President Obama in his cabinet.

When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.

When I became secretary of state, we had 200,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I'm very grateful that we have brought home the vast majority of those.

I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state.

Getting countries working together was my job every day as your secretary of state.

I was involved in a number of efforts to take out Al Qaida leadership when I was secretary of state, including, of course, taking out [Usama] bin Laden.

President-elect John F.Kennedy said to Robert McNamara that there's no school for presidents, or, for that matter, for secretaries of defense.

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this week there's a good chance we never get bin Laden. bin Laden! We couldn't even get O.J.!

I said in my inaugural address that I am not the Council's secretary, nor am I the Parliament's lackey. That can sometimes lead to conflicts, which are defused through dialogue.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.

I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.

While Secretary Rumsfeld and I have had our differences, he deserves Americans' respect and gratitude for his many years of public service.

Wow, the entire network of anchors has been hired to be the press secretary.

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

J.D. nodded. Yes, yes, fine, thank you. Nice attitude, by the way. Like boss, like secretary.

It's always a difficult time to be secretary general.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of New York.

The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump's Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.

Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have.

Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he's on most entirely because of loyalty to Donald Trump.

[John Kerry] actually stole my line because when I became Secretary of State, I said, 'I hope my heels will fill Warren Christopher's shoes.' So he reversed that.

I think the hardest part [is] the priorities. There are an awful lot of things to do [being Secretary of State].

The interesting part is, that being the United States Secretary of State, most places I went didn't have a problem with me being a woman, because I was representing the United States.

I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.

I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.

I don't think you have to go out and become Secretary of State or be Bono but I think it's to let people know that whatever they do in their life that that's good.

Mitt Romney looks like a secretary of state. He looks like the chancellor of the exchequer.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

One of the first things every press secretary assures you is, the boss has a wonderful sense of humor, because not to have a sense of humor is considered flagrantly un-American.

“Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town-hall meeting in Tehran.” That’s telling ’em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they’d call her bluff.

Back off, boys. You don't want to mess with an out-of-work secretary. We're real testy.

Hillary Clinton wants a better title, and I would, too, if I was already America's secretary of the status quo.

If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.

I think Putin has already gotten used to the idea of Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, making noise - it just doesn't seem to impress Moscow at all.

Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.

Listen, I would never judge someone who screwed their babysitter for years or knocked up their secretary, so don't ask me to.

My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

I know President Obama and Secretary Clinton are committed to bringing America together. This needs to be a time of redemption, not a time of recrimination.

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.

Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.