Secretary Quotes - Page 25

• Certainly, we shouldn't go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Defense, Habit

  "Gen. James 'Mad Dog' Mattis Picked By Trump To Be Defense Secretary". "All Things Considered" with Steve Inskeep, wbaa.org. December 2, 2016.

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• The question is always how you get the number of troops needed. They do not have to be coalition forces. We also have to expand the training program for the Afghan National Army and the national police, in particular. and Defense Secretary Robert Gates has already announced support for a significant increase in the Afghan army.

  David Petraeus

  Army, Numbers, Support

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• I did a week-long assessment in 2005 at (then Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld's request. Following our return, I told him that Afghanistan was going to be the longest campaign of what we then termed "the long war."

  David Petraeus

  War, Assessment, Long

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• The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought to control the military and not have the military control the military.

  Leon Panetta

  Jobs, Military, Believe

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When the Defense Department was established after World War II, a law said that any defense secretary with military experience must have been out of the military at least seven years. General [James] Mattis doesn't meet that.

  Steve Inskeep

  Military, War, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I know President Obama and Secretary Clinton are committed to bringing America together. This needs to be a time of redemption, not a time of recrimination.

  Paul Ryan

  America, President, Together

  Source: time.com

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• At least some of us need to be very careful in running to coronating Secretary Clinton.

  Eddie Glaude

  Running, Needs, Clinton

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going to - we're not going to advance NATO into East Germany, if you allow the unification of Germany." Where is that pledge? Where is the logic behind a military alliance, devised in the time of communism, before the Berlin Wall fell, now being in the Ukraine, in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia and Lithuania? I don't understand.

  Rashid Khalidi

  Wall, Military, Ukraine

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

  Julianne Malveaux

  President, Duncan, Barack

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Secretary of state, now they're saying it's between Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, which has a lot of our viewers saying, how could Mitt Romney even be in the running given how loyal Rudy Giuliani was to Mr. Trump. And even if you might like Mitt Romney, he was not loyal and in fact he savaged Trump during the primary.

  Megyn Kelly

  Running, Loyal, Might

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The question is are you loyal to the agenda that [Donald] Trump, that President-elect Trump has put forward in terms of his view of the world and the person to which the secretary of state would function.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Views, President, Agendas

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Senator Jeff Sessions is reportedly on the [Donald] Trump shortlist to be either the next Secretary of Defense or the next Attorney General of the United States.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  United States, Defense, Next

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach who helped write the immigration laws in Arizona said that [Donald] Trump's policy advisors are drafting, they're discussing drafting a proposal, to reinstate a registry for immigrants from Muslim countries.

  Megyn Kelly

  Country, Writing, Law

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• If I were the treasury secretary or head of the Fed, you know, I would try to scare the hell the out of the private sector and say, you better save this because you're going down with the ship.

  Warren Buffett

  Trying, Scare, Ships

  "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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• I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

  Mark Shields

  Children, School, Responsibility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Office, Rudolph, Lasts

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he`s on most entirely because of loyalty to Donald Trump.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  Loyalty, Lists, States

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Larry Kramer] got really mad at me once. The precipitating incident was a speech at Yale by the first President Bush's Secretary of Heath and Human Services, Louis Sullivan, against which Larry led a demonstration. He got the demonstrators to drown out Sullivan's speech, which wasn't allowed.

  Kevin Sessums

  Yale, Mad, President

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of New York.

  Lawrence O'Donnell

  New York, Rudolph, Affair

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think that [John Kelly] will bring law and order. And what I'm hoping for with this is that the restoration of the rule of law, especially with regard to immigration, that is the main principle that needs to be driven by the secretary of homeland security.

  Steve King

  Thinking, Law, Order

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I also think we have got other great choices to make. The conclusion has not been made. There's no announcement that's coming today, as far as Secretary of State is concerned.

  Reince Priebus

  Thinking, Choices, Today

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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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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• The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents.

  Edward Gibbon

  Retirement, Party, History

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.437, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• 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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