Secretary Quotes - Page 4

• I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Interesting, Letters, Workers

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• I would say I need two things: the first one is to be objective in every statement he could make regarding any conflict around the world, including Syria. The second one is not to turn Secretary-General office into a part or branch of the State Department of the United States.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Two, Office, Firsts

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza Rice an excellent choice.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  People, Choices, President

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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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• The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and my staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Borders, Construction

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There tends to be this comfortable assumption that nuclear weapons won't be used, but I don't think that's warranted, and I think we should seize the opportunity of this time of stability and cooperation and move towards global elimination of nuclear weapons as indeed people like Henry Kissinger, and William Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Clinton, and Sam Nunn, former Senator, and George Schultz, former Undersecretary of State for Ronald Reagan. All of them recently called for achievement of a nuclear weapon-free world.

  John Burroughs

  Moving, Opportunity, Thinking

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• We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Reform, Dollars

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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• Everybody knows that the United Nations is not the Secretary-General; he has an important position, but the United Nations is the states within this organization, and to be frank, most of the people say only the five permanent members; this is the United Nations because they have the veto, they can do whatever they want and they can refuse whatever they want, and if there's a reform that is very much needed for this organization.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Organization, People, Important

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• I think that the only time we will really know what then-President Trump is going to do about the set of challenges that confront him is after he has sat down with his advisers as the commander in chief, when he's looking at the threats and the intelligence from the standpoint of being the number one decider, when he's hearing from his secretary of defense, his chairman, who was the same chairman President Obama had, Chairman Joe Dunford, who is an outstanding public servant, who has led our anti-ISIL effort, on which we're making great progress.

  Samantha Power

  Thinking, Numbers, Effort

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• He has a competent person, I think who will be confirmed as HHS secretary, Congressman Tom Price.

  William Kristol

  Thinking, Congressman, Persons

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.

  James Mattis

  Sorry, Defense, Records

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What would you do differently as defense secretary to compensate for this record in which the greatest military in the world, as we are constantly told, doesn't get the job done?

  James Mattis

  Jobs, Military, Defense

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the rule was, only the secretary-general speaks to the press; only the secretary-general makes... So you would see many situations where under-secretaries-general would come in and speak. I opened that, and I encouraged all of them to speak in their areas, whether it was peacekeeping or humanitarian efforts.

  Kofi Annan

  Media, Effort, Shy

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• It's always a difficult time to be secretary general.

  Kofi Annan

  Difficult Times, Difficult

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• When I approached one of his secretaries for an interview, I was told that Bob [Dylan] didn't want to see me anymore because of what my wife Margot [Hentoff] had written.

  Nat Hentoff

  Wife, Bob, Want

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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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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• I could be wrong about that, and [Susan Rice ] may have really wanted [secretary of state place]. But now she has become a liability. If, in fact, it was legitimate. If [Barack Obama] wanted her and she wanted it, they've told her to go pound sand now, and that's purely because of Benghazi.

  Rush Limbaugh

  May, Facts, Pounds

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mind, Males, Female

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.22, Random House

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• Back off, boys. You don't want to mess with an out-of-work secretary. We're real testy.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Real, Boys, Want

  MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.120, Penguin

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