Secretary Quotes - Page 11

• Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?

  Meg Greenfield

  Success, Exercise, Men

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• Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence.

  Tony Blair

  Taken, Home, Hatred

  Press Conference, webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. August 5, 2005.

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• If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.

  Michael Heseltine

  Trust, Cabinets, Prime

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• I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

  Ken Livingstone

  Exercise, Ethical Standards, Office

  "Livingstone sworn in as London mayor" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 08, 2000.

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• Secretary of state Colin Powell himself eloquently pointed out the many ways to get at the root of this problem... economic, diplomatic, legal and political, as well as military. A rush to launch precipitous military counterattacks runs too great a risk that more innocent men, women and children will be killed. I could not vote for a resolution that I believe will lead to such an outcome.

  Barbara Lee

  Running, Children, Military

  "Congress has given Bush a free hand - and that puts more lives at risk". www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2001.

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• I play David Hasselhoff's secretary and she gets around a bit - it's quite a role. I end up in bed with Adam Sandler, It's so surreal it's hysterical . . I'm so excited. This is the biggest thing I have ever done, there's no comparison.

  Sophie Monk

  Play, Bed, Roles

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• 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.

  Will Rogers

  Agriculture, Trying, Birth Control

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• Barack Obama is putting his team together to take over the Administration. So far, he's got his mother-in-law, who is going to be living with him, and they are talking about Hillary for Secretary of State. You have your mother-in-law and Hillary Clinton. Sounds like smooth sailing to me.

  David Letterman

  Mother, Team, Talking

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• They are having quite an argument over Treasury Secretary Mellon's Tax Bill. Mr. Mellon wants to cut the surtax on the rich, and leave it as is on the poor, as there is more poor than rich. I suppose the majority will win.

  Will Rogers

  Cutting, Winning, Bills

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• 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.

  Jim Croce

  Work, Air, Talking

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• 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.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Pages, Next, Novel

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hands, Authority, Unlimited

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• The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.

  Lysander Spooner

  Kings, Moon, Men

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator to bring industry to the state. That's the lieutenant governor's job, that's your state senators' and assemblymen's job. That's your secretary of state's job, to make a climate in the state that says, 'Y'all come.'

  Sharron Angle

  Jobs, People, Climate

  "Angle: Unemployed are 'Spoiled'; It's not my job to fight for Nevadans' jobs". Sharron Angle's campaign appearance, www.youtube.com. May 14, 2010.

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• Both Bush as well, as Tony Blair, are undermining an idea which was sponsored by their predecessors. They do not care. Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary-generals were white.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Ideas, White

  "Mandela: U.S. wants holocaust". Nelson Mandela's speech at the International Women's Forum in Johannesburg, prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, edition.cnn.com. January 29, 2003.

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• I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true.

  Tony Benn

  Responsibility, Media, Class

  Tony Benn's Closing address to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, October 6, 1972.

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• The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Availability, Speak, Process

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.252, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Mother, Wish

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• People who get higher pay are more willing to relocate--especially to undesirable locations at the company's behest... A corporate secretary may change companies in the same town; a corporate executive is more likely to change towns with the same company. A talented corporate secretary sees an invitation to relocate as an invitation; a future corporate executive sees an invitation to relocate as an opportunity--and an obligation.

  Warren Farrell

  Opportunity, People, Getting High

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• Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off.

  Paul Keating

  Running, Doe, Littles

  "Keating in the Hot Seat". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, www.abc.net.au. August 06, 2008.

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• Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House.

  Alexander Haig

  Order, White, House

  "Trends Of 2010: The Political Year In Review". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 15, 2010.

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• Practically all we know is that thousands of native Haitians have been killed by American Marines, and that many of our own gallant men have sacrificed their lives at the behest of an Executive department in order to establish laws drafted by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. ... I will not empower an Assistant Secretary of the Navy to draft a constitution for helpless neighbors in the West Indies and jam it down their throats at the point of bayonets borne by U.S. Marines.

  Warren G. Harding

  Marine, Men, West Indies

  "Democracy at the Point of Bayonets". Book by Mark Penceny, 1999.

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• A secretary is not a toy.

  Frank Loesser

  Toys

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

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• I really am tired of all the Clinton Democrats running around getting all-sanctimonious over Iraq. It was them who killed 1.5 to 2.2 million Iraqis through sanctions. Sanctions that Madeline Albright, their illustrious Secretary of State, when confronted with the fact of 500,000 dead Iraqi children, said it was a price she was willing to pay.

  Scott Ritter

  Running, Children, Tired

  "Scott Ritter Says Controversial Things About Clinton, Bush, Fox News, the Surge, etc." by Chris Davis, www.memphisflyer.com. May 03, 2008.

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• I care deeply about women's rights. I have been an outspoken advocate for them for many years and as secretary of state I carried that message around the world because empowering women, providing for women's rights, their full participation in society, politics, the economy is not only a matter of individuals being able to chart their own futures. It's good for democracy and it's good for peace and prosperity.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, Rights, Empowering

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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