Secretary Quotes

Secretary Hillary Clinton for four years was part of a policy of resetting Russian relations with Russia in our interests.

Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were no longer needed.

As secretary of state you can go out in a helmet if you want to. Even in Switzerland in front of reporters.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.

I also think we have got other great choices to make. The conclusion has not been made. There's no announcement that's coming today, as far as Secretary of State is concerned.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

The bilateral relationship is unshakable, but playing politics with that relationship could blunt Secretary Kerry's enthusiasm for being Israel's primary defender.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow)

Hillary Clinton's exposed more of our top secret documents than any Secretary of State in history.

I asked Secretary [Robert] Gates, what did they get in return for giving up the nuclear shield of Poland and the Czech Republic? And you know what his answer was? Nada. They got nothing.

[Barack Obama and Susan Rice] simply do not want any hearings on Benghazi, and they wouldn't be able to avoid it if she's up there as secretary of state.

As secretary of state Hillary Clinton was rolled by everybody.

[when asked by his secretary if she should destroy all files that were over ten years old] Yes, but keep copies.

President-elect Trump has said he would like to improve relations with Russia. His choice for defense secretary views Russia as America's number one threat.

Talk to the assistant press secretary, the deputy to key administration officials.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on.

I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is.

If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.

I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

He has a competent person, I think who will be confirmed as HHS secretary, Congressman Tom Price.

Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary.

Without you, I’m not me. Something inside that I didn’t even know about is broken without you.

I got the chance to be the secretary of state I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.

As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.

I was studying to be a legal secretary when I was called to audition for 'Ken.'