Secretary Quotes - Page 6

• When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sleep, Men, Appreciate

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• (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

  Harold MacMillan

  Forever, Cliche, Diplomacy

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• I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened.

  Randall Terry

  Running, Adultery, Made

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• No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Jobs, Giving, Want

  Interview, Sunday Telegraph (London), 26 Oct. 1969

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• I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.

  Tom Vilsack

  Appreciation, Expression, Years

  "Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.

  Tom Vilsack

  Thinking, Cities, Agriculture

  "Vilsack: 'I took it as a slam on rural America'". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.

  Christopher Walken

  Jobs, Dad, Play

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• President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.

  Juan Williams

  Teacher, School, Winning

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• There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'

  Jessica Valenti

  Country, Numbers, Female

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• Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.

  Madeleine Albright

  Girl, America, Europe

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• Talk to the assistant press secretary, the deputy to key administration officials.

  Steve Scully

  Keys, Assistants, Administration

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• Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

  Warren Christopher

  War, President, World

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• We all know why [the generals] are so critical of the defense secretary. They're being defensive because they weren't able to implement his brilliant plan [on screen: Operation 'Greet Us As Liberators']. It was so simple: Go in with 100,000 troops, topple the regime, everybody loves us, and we leave by Easter 2003. These ex-military men have their right to their opinions, that's fine. They just shouldn't voice them during a war [on screen: 'Loose Lips Sink Approval Ratings']

  Stephen Colbert

  Easter, War, Military

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• TV's Tony Snow becomes the White House press secretary. How will he make the difficult transition from Fox News reporter to Republican apologist? ... Mr. President, it is time to hire the folks who've never let you down. Limbaugh at Health and Human Services. Hannity at State. Then give Rummy the Medal of Freedom and install Bill O'Reilly as secretary of defense. Only problem, you might find yourself invading Vermont. And I'll replace Chertoff at Homeland Security. The man's done nothing to control the bear population.

  Stephen Colbert

  Men, White, Giving

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• In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Wall, Hard Work

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• If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world.

  Naji Sabri

  Mean, Responsibility, Baghdad

  "Iraq: Bush, not Saddam, should quit". www.cnn.com. March 18, 2003.

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• The hot gossip in Washington is that Condoleezza Rice might have a new boyfriend. Secretary of State Rice is being linked to Canada's Foreign Minister, Peter MacKay. It's gotta be awkward dating a fellow diplomat. Like today, MacKay had to promise Condi he would get permission from the U.N. before he invaded her.

  Jay Leno

  Gossip, Dating, Awkward

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• My friends all say I’m going to be Secretary of State, [but] I don’t see how that would be much different from the job I have now

  Fareed Zakaria

  Jobs, Different, Would Be

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• I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday.

  Harry Reid

  War, Believe, Iraq

  "On the Hill: A 'Lost' War, and Gonzales Advised to Resign". "Day to Day" with Madeleine Brand, www.npr.org. April 20, 2007.

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• It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to. It was most alarming the way people's attitudes changed when I started wearing my designer suits to committee meetings. Obviously, it's not just the clothes that count; you have got to have something worth saying. But it si true that some people's views are dismissed before they speak because others perceive them as just a secretary!

  Stephanie Ellis

  Fashion, Attitude, Views

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• I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

  Robert M. Gates

  Defense, Arguing, States

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• I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterdays election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.

  Jim Clyburn

  War, Believe, Iraq

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• And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

  George W. Bush

  Military, War, Winning

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• Sadly, a U.S. invasion of Iraq 'would threaten the whole stability of the Middle East' - or so Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, told the BBC on Tuesday. Amr's talking points are so Sept. 10: It's supposed to destabilize the Middle East. The stability of the Middle East is unique in the non-democratic world and it's the lack of change in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt that's turned them into a fetid swamp of terrorist bottom-feeders.

  Mark Steyn

  Unique, Egypt, Iran

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• I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.

  Elton Gallegly

  President, Ridges, Great Respect

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