Secretary Quotes

• You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

  Jane Fonda

  Running, Office, Boss

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

  Robertson Davies

  Needs, Efficient, Processors

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

  Ariel Dorfman

  Responsibility, Fate, Destiny

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• 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 . . . .

  Elizabeth Dole

  Glasses, Catalyst For Change, Ceilings

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• The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

  Donald Trump

  Boss, Firsts, Type

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• And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

  Arthur Bryant

  Farewell, Thinking, Brain

  Sir Arthur Bryant, Alan Brooke Alanbrooke (Viscount) (1957). “The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years Based on the Diares of Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff”

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

  Venerable Bede

  Copies, My Own

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• 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.

  Frank Loesser

  Writing, Night, Keys

  Frank Loesser (2003). “The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Delegates

  "Rather Says Bloomberg Ruled Out White House Bid". Interview with Dan Rather, cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com. August 17, 2007.

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• Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

  Alan Kay

  Writing, Intelligent, Doe

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

  Barry Goldwater

  Business, Stupid, Men

  Attributed to Barry Goldwater in: Conference Board, Across the board. Vol. 15. p. 74, 1978.

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• The biggest challenge of being the press secretary is trying to be aware of all of the things that are happening, both around the world but also here at home and in politics, and trying to absorb all of that information as quickly as I can.

  Josh Earnest

  Home, Challenges, Trying

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

  Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

  Colin Powell

  Arrogant, Arms, Complacency

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Lasts, States

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• 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.

  Stephen Fry

  Love, Knees, Proposal

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• One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Government, Media

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• The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Done, Should, Outsourcing

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

  Leon Trotsky

  Powerful, Revenge, Most Powerful

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• All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.

  William Kristol

  Defense, Made, Wartime

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• Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls.

  Doris Lilly

  Girl, Making Money, Busy

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• Every press secretary faces an enormous amount of information. Events move really fast. You're responsible for a tremendous amount of information, and again, a tremendous amount on competing agendas. Not everybody grease in the White House.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Moving, White, House

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrongsomebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promisesI say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we startedAnd an enormous debt to boot!

  Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

  Country, Money, Jobs

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• I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, dealing with the fact that we have more people in jail, shamefully, than any other country on Earth, that I am against the death penalty, Secretary Clinton is not, I think, as people become familiar with my ideas, we are going to do better and better.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Everything I did as secretary of state was in furtherance of America's interests and our values.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, States, Interest

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