Secretary Quotes - Page 3

• When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don't try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Understanding, Trying, Want

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• I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.

  John F. Kerry

  Israel, Years, States

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.

  Dave Barry

  God, Years, Stupidity

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• In fact, during her [Hillary Clinton] tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value, doubled.

  Julian Assange

  United States, Dollars, Arms

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• Believe me: The day [Barack] Obama goes off, and he leaves, and goes out to the golf course for the rest of his life to play golf, when they raise interest rates, you're going to see some very bad things happen, because the Fed is not doing their job. The Fed is being more political than Secretary [Hillary] Clinton.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Believe, Golf

  Source: time.com

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• Men didn't like to empty bedpans, so we made women nurses. Then men didn't like to do the administrative stuff, so women were allowed to become secretaries. That's the way they entered the work force. Then we began to educate them because they had to be educated. But it wasn't until after World War II that most of the great universities of this country became coeducational.

  John Shelby Spong

  Country, War, Men

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• It is mostly a matter of wills. Whose will is going to break first? Ours or the enemy's?

  James Mattis

  Enemy, Matter, Firsts

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• General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

  Ronald Reagan

  Wall, Patriotic, Europe

  Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate, delivered 12 June 1987, West Berlin

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• On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to know. On the expressways, middle management men pose without grace behind their wheels as they flee city and job.

  Studs Terkel

  Jobs, Men, Elderly

  Studs Terkel (2013). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.256, The New Press

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• The FBI demonstrated this by taking down the former head of the CIA [General David Petraeus] over classified information given to his mistress. Almost no-one is untouchable. The FBI is always trying to demonstrate that no-one can resist us. But Hillary Clinton very conspicuously resisted the FBI's investigation, so there's anger within the FBI because it made the FBI look weak. We've published about 33,000 of Clinton's emails when she was Secretary of State.

  Julian Assange

  Always Trying, Mistress, Email

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• It's lifestyle music. It's not like some secretary who likes some pop song, but can't name who the band is; whereas a heavy metal fan is into every aspect of it. We'll see if rap holds up to that. Run-DMC seemed to be the Led Zeppelin of rap.

  Rob Zombie

  Running, Song, Rap

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• I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Father, Thinking

  "Rice speech sparks 2016 speculation" by Kevin Cirilli, Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Law, Special

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• Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Moving, Dark, Night

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• During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary.

  Shinzo Abe

  Cabinets, Administration, Deputies

  "Shinzo Abe Talk Asia interview". Interview With Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2007.

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• The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.

  Ari Fleischer

  President, Answers, Delicate

  "CNN Reliable Sources", www.cnn.com. June 1, 2003.

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• I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

  Robert M. Gates

  Moving, Administration, Defense

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• But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.

  Wes Craven

  Political, Elements, Deputies

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• I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

  Dick Gephardt

  Mother, Dad, School

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• I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

  Michael Ignatieff

  War, Historical, Bosnians

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• Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.

  Felicia Day

  Quirky, Hollywood, Decided

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We became a congresswoman, a stay-at-home mom, a filmmaker, and a journalist. And Lino and I taught our children that they could rise to even greater heights. They could become surgeons, CEOs, supreme court justices, secretary of state, and even president of the United States. We didn't teach our daughters that they were second-class citizens.

  Diana DeGette

  Mom, Daughter, Badass

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• Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will.

  Stephen Colbert

  Monday, Believe, Home

  Stephen Colbert’s speech at the White House Correspondent's Association Dinner, www.democracynow.org. May 3, 2006.

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• J.D. nodded. Yes, yes, fine, thank you. Nice attitude, by the way. Like boss, like secretary.

  Julie James

  Attitude, Nice, Boss

  Julie James (2009). “Practice Makes Perfect”, p.102, Penguin

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• Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

  Richard Armitage

  White, House, Wish

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