Secretary Quotes - Page 15

• During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Powerful, Years, Filters

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• The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.

  Dennis Miller

  Woods, American Education System, Ifs

  "Ranting Again". Book by Dennis Miller, June 1998.

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• No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis.

  Theresa May

  Jobs, Home, Matter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right.

  David Plouffe

  Country, People, Doe

  "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Issues, Agreement, Administration

  Donald Rumsfeld (2004). “The World According to Rummy”, Welcome Rain Publishers

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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 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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• I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs.

  Maurice Strong

  Decision, Program, Projects

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• My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

  Barbra Streisand

  Mother, Actresses, Should

  "Barbra Streisand: The Legend" by Sheila Weller, www.glamour.com. October 30, 2013.

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• Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.

  Ben Stein

  Hate, Moon, Russia

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• Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

  Thomas Sowell

  War, Kids, Defense

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Organization, Asia, East

  Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Wilfred G. Burchett (1973). “My war with the CIA: Cambodia's fight for survival”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Exercise, Tasks

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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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• 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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• The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Mother, Wish

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs.

  Joe Baca

  School, Issues, Challenges

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• One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

  Madeleine Albright

  Issues, Want, Reason

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• I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

  Madeleine Albright

  Men, America, United States

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• I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

  Madeleine Albright

  States

  "I loved what I did". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2003.

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• I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

  Madeleine Albright

  States, Evident

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• My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Book, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.541, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Best Job, World

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• I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

  Hugo Chavez

  Country, Thinking, People

  "Larry King Live", www.realclearpolitics.com. September 24, 2009.

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• I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

  Dick Cheney

  Years, White, Judging

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