Secretary Quotes - Page 16

• I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Privilege, Defence, Expected

  "Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth on Afghanistan and the spirit of our armed forces". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. August 22, 2009.

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• Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Italian, Dinner, John Paul Ii

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• I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Nuts, Culture, Proportion

  "Press regulation 'needs state support'" by Owen Bowcott, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2012.

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• To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in the mail one day and say, 'Aw, sh - , I'm secretary of state next month.

  Wanda Sykes

  Office, Political, One Day

  "Is Washington ready for Wanda?" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. March 20, 2009.

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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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• President Obama. He is the man. I've tried the rest, and he is the best. My dream is for him to appoint me to be the Secretary of Humor. My first act will be to make whatever Larry the Cable Guy is doing illegal.

  Andy Kindler

  Dream, Men, Guy

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• Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Arabia, Lions, Clubs

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• When my son was a mere three months old, I started working at the State Department. I was not only the youngest Assistant Secretary of State but I was also a breastfeeding mother. I'm the first to admit that this felt crazy at times, and the balancing act is never ever easy. But my two kids are the most wonderful things that have ever happened to me.

  Susan Rice

  Mother, Crazy, Kids

  Susan Rice Graduation Speech at Spelman College, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2010.

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• I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my way to the top of corporate America while being called every B word in the book. I fought my way into this election and on to this debate stage while all the political insiders and the pundits told, "it couldn't be done."

  Carly Fiorina

  Children, Cancer, Book

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.

  Mia Bloom

  People, Violence, Prime

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I worry that the weakness - particularly of our public schools - is going to make that less and less true for everybody. And if we ever lose that as our core, then we're going to lose our confidence. We're not going to lead. We're going to protect. We're going to turn inward. That would be very bad for the world. So as a former Secretary of State, I think I can advocate for education as a national security priority.

  Condoleezza Rice

  School, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The thing that strikes me, from looking at the names so far in the Donald Trump's Cabinet on the foreign policy side, is the one thing that unites them - and that's General James Mattis at the Pentagon, Mike Pompeo at the CIA, even Mitt Romney to become secretary of state - they're all very, very hawkish on Iran.

  Geoff Dyer

  Cia, Foreign Policy, Policy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think there's no question that the barriers, the fences and in certain urban areas, the walls, have had an important effect in terms of increasing the manageability and the security of the border. But in fact as Secretary of Homeland Security General John Kelly acknowledged at his confirmation hearing, walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.

  Alan Bersin

  Wall, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• As former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano pointed out, if you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder. You need a strategy that involves layered defense: deployed patrols, sophisticated sensor equipment, and surveillance from the air. That is what has had a positive impact over the last generation.

  Alan Bersin

  Wall, Strategy, Sophisticated

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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.

  Steve Inskeep

  Choices, Relation, Threat

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the issues I'm really happy about is that recently, Secretary Clinton and I worked out an agreement on higher education, making public colleges and universities tuition free for every family in America earning less than 125,000 bucks. Didn't go as far as I wanted. But that's 83 percent of the population in this country.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, College, Clinton

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The problems facing the world and the United States today of lawlessness and terrorism can directly be laid to the policies that have come out of the White House and out of the secretary of state's office when Clinton was president.

  Paul J. Manafort

  Office, House, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• There are many reasons why the Russians prefer Donald Trump.I think, in the first instance, they wanted to tear down Secretary Clinton. They, I think, despised her remarks about the flawed 2011 elections in Russia. They feared that she would be very tough on Russia in terms of sanctions.

  Adam Schiff

  Thinking, Tears, Tough

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• All concluded that Russia did in fact interfere in the 2016 election in order to, quote, help President-elect Trump's election chances when possible by discrediting Secretary Clinton. And the agencies concluded that the Russians had a clear preference for President Trump.

  Al Franken

  President, Helping, Chance

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The problem with these presidential debates like this is that you can't really prepare for them, because the questions are so individual and personal or even idiosyncratic. Secretary Hillary Clinton has a lot richer and deeper experience in doing these, obviously, than Donald Trump.

  Michael Gerson

  Presidential, Problem, Debate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The FBI found Hillary Clinton to be extremely careless with classified information on her non-secured private e-mail server. While secretary of state. In addition to all we've been talking about, we're learning that Clinton actually lectured her own staff about the importance of cyber security back in 2010, telling them to do one thing while she herself was doing another thing.

  Juan Williams

  Clinton, Importance, Server

  Source: www.foxnews.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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• Who are we talking about? We're talking about the people that are trying to criminalize Donald Trump. We're talking about the people that are trying to impeach him. We're talking about people who are trying to via innuendo and leak and media assassination, we're dealing with people that are trying to destroy Donald Trump and his press secretary just signaled that they are serious about reaching out to these people to try to get certain things done, legislatively, like infrastructure or tax reform.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Trying, Done

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it's a global system and of course he didn't say it, it's an intervention force under US command, as we've seen in case after case. So that's NATO.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, War, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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