Secretary Quotes - Page 14

• Back in 2007, many people criticized me for my talk at the Munich Security Conference. But what did I say there? I merely pointed out that the former NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner had guaranteed that NATO would not expand eastwards after the fall of the Wall.

  Vladimir Putin

  Wall, Fall, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Art, Writing

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• We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.

  Alex J. Morrison

  Vacation, Hands, Resolution

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• Using these new funds, I will ask my secretary of defense to propose a new defense budget to meet the following longtime goals.

  Donald Trump

  Goal, Defense, Propose

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• 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.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Ideas, Moscow

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• So on the Tuesday night deadline, while Abu Qatada was appealing to European Court judges, the Home Secretary, who thought the deadline was Monday night, was partying with "X Factor" judges. When the Home Secretary is accused of not knowing what day of the week it is, confusion and chaos have turned into farce.

  Yvette Cooper

  Monday, Party, Home

  Yvette Cooper during House of Commons Debates, www.publications.parliament.uk. April 19, 2012.

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

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Priorities, Awful

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• One of the things I write about a bit in my Madam Secretary memoir is on Rwanda, where I was an instructed ambassador at the U.N., and my instructions were to not vote for increased forces there, and I didn't like my instructions. So I got up and called Washington and said, "Change my instructions," and they didn't.

  Madeleine Albright

  Writing, Ambassadors, Vote

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Well, in Washington, this is a very hard time for Eleanor and Franklin. This is when Lucy Mercer first appears. And Lucy Mercer is Eleanor Roosevelt's own secretary. Very beautiful young woman, not unlike Eleanor Roosevelt: tall, blonde, thick haired. And FDR is having an affair with her, which Eleanor Roosevelt finds out when FDR returns from Europe in 1918 with the famous flu of 1918.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Beautiful, Hard Times, Europe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of State John Kerry asking for a meeting to discuss what's happening to Christians and other minorities. Nina Shea organized the effort.

  Tom Gjelten

  Christian, Religious, Moving

  "As Christians Flee, Governments Pressured To Declare ISIS Guilty Of Genocide". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 24, 2015.

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• I agree with the secretary [Hillary Clinton] that I think what has to happen - and let me just mention what King Abdullah of Jordan said. I think he hit the nail on the head.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kings, Thinking, Nails

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• 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.

  Bernie Sanders

  Years, Four, Hats

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I agree completely with Secretary Colin Powell, who said today this is an absurdity. And so I think the American people will know it's an absurdity. I have absolutely no concerns about it whatsoever.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, People, Today

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Republicans didn't lie to the American people about whether there were classified e-mails on that server and Republicans didn't tell families of Americans killed in Benghazi that a video was to blame for their murders. There isn't a vast right-wing conspiracy, Madam Secretary. Just like there wasn't one back in 1998.

  Eric Bolling

  Lying, Wings, People

  "Hillary Clinton still believes in vast right-wing conspiracy". "The Five" with Eric Bolling, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Meghan McCain, and Brian Kilmeade, www.foxnews.com. February 4, 2016.

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• Well, no one knows for sure. There are now two competing governments and various armed militias, tribes and clans. Secretary John Kerry and others have said they're hopeful a single government can be formed soon maybe in the coming weeks.

  Tom Bowman

  Government, Two, Hopeful

  "U.S. Airstrikes Hit ISIS Training Camp In Libya". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.

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• 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.

  Madeleine Albright

  Patriotic, Thinking, Tough Questions

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• The former secretary of State is the nominee. She is also the Willie Sutton of classified data. And there is going to be a long-term effort of Republicans, whether it's Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz, to paint her into the corner.

  Hugh Hewitt

  Data, Long, Effort

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I was always amused that people were either skeptical or surprised that I would choose a Hillary Clinton as a secretary of state. To my mind, having somebody smart, tough, capable with her own stature, who could travel around the world and command the stage, was a huge asset.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, People, Mind

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Team, People, Defense

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• When these people are going to put billions and billions of dollars into companies, and when they're going to bring $2.5 trillion back from overseas, where they can't bring the money back, because politicians like Secretary Hillary Clinton won't allow them to bring the money back, because the taxes are so onerous, and the bureaucratic red tape, so what - is so bad.

  Donald Trump

  People, Dollars, Tape

  "Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University". "NBC Nightly News", www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Secretary Clinton is talking about taking out ISIS. "We will take out ISIS." Well, President Obama and Secretary Clinton created a vacuum the way they got out of Iraq, because they got out - what, they shouldn't have been in, but once they got in, the way they got out was a disaster. And ISIS was formed.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Talking, Iraq

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton I want you to be very happy. It's very important to me.

  Donald Trump

  Important, Want, Fairness

  Source: time.com

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• In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, when she started talking about this, it was really very recently. She's been doing this for 30 years. And why hasn't she made the [trade] agreements better? The NAFTA agreement is defective.

  Donald Trump

  Agreement, Talking, Years

  Donald Trump's speech at the first Trump-Clinton presidential debate hosted by NBC News' anchor Lester Holt at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• When Secretary [Hillary] Clinton talks about people that didn't get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation.

  Donald Trump

  Taken, Law, People

  Donald Trump's speech at the first 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, moderated by anchor of NBC Nightly News Lester Holt, www.nbcnews.com. September 26, 2016.

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• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Numbers, Effort, Als

  "Trump vs. Clinton: Full Transcript Of First Presidential Debate 2016". www.ibtimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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