Secretary Quotes - Page 26

• American Secretaries of State have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything Presidential or legislative that he achieved - still surprise a student of his personality.

  Thomas Mallon

  Personality, Presidential, Students

  "Born To Do It" by Thomas Mallon, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2014.

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• It makes a difference who the treasury secretary is.

  Warren Buffett

  Differences, Making A Difference, Treasury

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". "Charlie Rose", www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Such a closely divided election; Secretary [Hillary] Clinton won the popular votes.Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin - about 112,000 votes separated the two candidates as well.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Two, Popular Vote, Wisconsin

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I know both Secretary [Hillary] Clinton and President [Barack] Obama were very gracious and I respect that a lot in the way they handled it the day after, two days after. But I wish they would says something about it too. Because after all, these are supporters of President Obama and Hillary Clinton and maybe they could say something about this. Really not the right thing in the democracy.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Two, President, Democracy

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Treasury

  "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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• When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world. And I did spend a lot of time and effort thinking through, How do I connect with this person?..

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Effort, World

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• When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.

  Hillary Clinton

  States, China, Percent

  "The first Trump-Clinton presidential debate transcript, annotated". www.washingtonpost.com. September 26, 2016.

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• When I entered federal parliament at the end of 2007, I was appointed parliamentary secretary for disabilities.

  Bill Shorten

  Disability, Ends, Parliament

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

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• Hillary Clinton has that, a passion to empower families and kids, and a desire to measure health of society by how families and kids are doing. You can see this from her service as a lawyer, first lady of Arkansas, and United States senator, and secretary of state.

  Tim Kaine

  Passion, Kids, Empowering

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you're working as secretary of state but half of your emails are about your own private business, since when is secretary of state such a leisurely job that half of your time and half of your email are spent on your own private business? There's something really wrong with that picture.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Email, Half

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• You don't do that while you're being paid by taxpayers to do a very difficult and full-time job, and you also do not bring Clinton Foundation interests into the domain of the secretary of state, and you do not give preferred access to your own personal clients.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Giving, Foundation

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, Fighting, Opposites

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• You [Hillary Clinton] go to New England, you go to Ohio, Pennsylvania, you go anywhere you want, Secretary Clinton, and you will see devastation where manufacture is down 30, 40, sometimes 50 percent.

  Donald Trump

  Ohio, Pennsylvania, Devastation

  Source: time.com

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• One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Keys, Government, Hands

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• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  Walid Muallem

  Thinking, Clinton, States

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• Sounds good, doesn't work. Never going to happen. Our country is suffering because people like Secretary [Hillary] Clinton have made such bad decisions in terms of our jobs and in terms of what's going on.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, People

  "Presidential debate transcript: Trump and Clinton, verbatim" by Evan Vucci and Julio Cortez, www.macleans.ca. September 26, 2016.

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• I have a lot of experience dealing with classified material, starting when I was on the Senate Armed Services Committee going into the four years as secretary of state.

  Hillary Clinton

  Years, Four, Starting

  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Remarks at a Military Forum, time.com. September 7, 2016.

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• We have no leadership. And honestly, that starts with Secretary Hillary Clinton.

  Donald Trump

  Clinton, Honestly

  "Donald Trump vs Hillary Clinton Debate". www.valuewalk.com. September 27, 2016.

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• When I became secretary of state, we had 200,000 troops deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I'm very grateful that we have brought home the vast majority of those.

  Hillary Clinton

  Grateful, Home, Iraq

  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump's Remarks at a Military Forum, time.com. September 7, 2016.

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• I asked Secretary [Robert] Gates, what did they get in return for giving up the nuclear shield of Poland and the Czech Republic? And you know what his answer was? Nada. They got nothing.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Giving Up, Czech Republic, Nuclear

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

  Bill Shorten

  Unions, Tradition, Trade

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

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• The CEO of Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, married one of the Enron secretaries this week. It's amazing how romantic these Enron guys can be when they realize that wives can't be forced to testify against their husbands. Skilling said today she was the best secretary Enron had ever had. She could shred 950 words a minute. ... I guess they are on their honeymoon right now. That's going pretty well. Hey, he's used to screwing Enron employees.

  Jay Leno

  Husband, Wife, Guy

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• If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit.

  Hamilton Jordan

  Election, Quitting, States

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• The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Jobs, Government, Suing

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• This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.

  Biz Stone

  Thinking, Impact, Ideas

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