Secretary Quotes - Page 26

• One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Keys, Government, Hands

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

  Walid Muallem

  Thinking, Clinton, States

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• American Secretaries of State have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything Presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

  Thomas Mallon

  Personality, Presidential, Students

  "Born To Do It" by Thomas Mallon, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.

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• When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world. And I did spend a lot of time and effort thinking through, How do I connect with this person?..

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Effort, World

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• 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.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Giving Up, Czech Republic, Nuclear

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Hillary Clinton has that, a passion to empower families and kids, and a desire to measure health of society by how families and kids are doing. You can see this from her service as a lawyer, first lady of Arkansas, and United States senator, and secretary of state.

  Tim Kaine

  Passion, Kids, Empowering

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you're working as secretary of state but half of your emails are about your own private business, since when is secretary of state such a leisurely job that half of your time and half of your email are spent on your own private business? There's something really wrong with that picture.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Email, Half

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• You don't do that while you're being paid by taxpayers to do a very difficult and full-time job, and you also do not bring Clinton Foundation interests into the domain of the secretary of state, and you do not give preferred access to your own personal clients.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Giving, Foundation

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.

  Hillary Clinton

  States, China, Percent

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• You [Hillary Clinton] go to New England, you go to Ohio, Pennsylvania, you go anywhere you want, Secretary Clinton, and you will see devastation where manufacture is down 30, 40, sometimes 50 percent.

  Donald Trump

  Ohio, Pennsylvania, Devastation

  Source: time.com

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• We have no leadership. And honestly, that starts with Secretary Hillary Clinton.

  Donald Trump

  Clinton, Honestly

  "Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton Debate". www.valuewalk.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Sounds good, doesn't work. Never going to happen. Our country is suffering because people like Secretary [Hillary] Clinton have made such bad decisions in terms of our jobs and in terms of what's going on.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, People

  "Presidential debate transcript: Trump and Clinton, verbatim" by Evan Vucci and Julio Cortez, www.macleans.ca. September 26, 2016.

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• I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, Four, Starting

  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Remarks at a Military Forum, time.com. September 7, 2016.

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• When I became secretary of state, we had 200,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I'm very grateful that we have brought home the vast majority of those.

  Hillary Clinton

  Grateful, Home, Iraq

  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Remarks at a Military Forum, time.com. September 7, 2016.

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• We owe $20 trillion, and we're a mess. And we've spent $6 trillion in the Middle East, according to a report that I just saw.And it's politicians like Secretary [Hillary] Clinton that have caused this problem.

  Donald Trump

  Saws, Middle East, Problem

  Source: time.com

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• Secretary [Hillary] Clinton and others, politicians, should have been doing this for years, not right now, because of the fact that we've created a movement. They should have been doing this for years. What's happened to our jobs and our country and our economy generally is - look, we owe $20 trillion. We cannot do it any longer.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Should Have

  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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• Hillary Clinton is the secretary of state who knows how to build alliances. She built the sanctions regime around the world that stopped the Iranian nuclear weapons program. And that's what an intelligence surge means, better skill and capacity, but also about our alliances.

  Tim Kaine

  Mean, Skills, Nuclear

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Such a closely divided election; Secretary [Hillary] Clinton won the popular votes.Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin - about 112,000 votes separated the two candidates as well.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Two, Popular Vote, Wisconsin

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I know both Secretary [Hillary] Clinton and President [Barack] Obama were very gracious and I respect that a lot in the way they handled it the day after, two days after. But I wish they would says something about it too. Because after all, these are supporters of President Obama and Hillary Clinton and maybe they could say something about this. Really not the right thing in the democracy.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Two, President, Democracy

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Treasury

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is.

  Warren Buffett

  Differences, Making A Difference, Treasury

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• I have known Secretary [Hillary] Clinton for 25 years and respect her very much.

  Bernie Sanders

  Years, Clinton, Respect Her

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The Affordable Care Act has clearly, as Secretary Clinton made the point, done a lot of good things, but, what it has not done is dealt with the fact we have 29 million people today who have zero health insurance, we have even more who are underinsured with large deductibles and copayments and prescription drug prices are off the wall.

  Bernie Sanders

  Zero, Wall, People

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• And then in the FBI report it says that Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the FBI because of her concussion because she didn't have a memory. But she was acting as secretary of state at the time which means we had a secretary of state who was acting who doesn't have a memory of what she was doing.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Memories, Mean, Acting

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I see in the FBI 302, which was put out on Memorial Day weekend in print about this big where you needed to use a magnifying glass to read it, but I read it twice, I saw something that really concerned me.It said Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the CIA because she had no memory for a period of time after she had a concussion. She was secretary of state when she had no memory. Now there's something really seriously wrong with it.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Memorial Day, Memories, Weekend

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". Interview with Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

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