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Quotes About Secretary

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.
~ Brian Sandoval
Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
~ Ariel Dorfman
There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
~ William Hague
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
~ William John Bennett
Those years would show, in the American system, how when a question of the use of force arose in government, the advocates of force were always better organized, seemed more numerous and seemed to have both logic and fear on their side, and that in fending them off in his own government, a President would need all the help he possibly could get, not the least of which should be a powerful Secretary of State.
~ David Halberstam
Those years [as the war progressed] would show, in the American system, how when a question of the use of force arose in government, the advocates of force were always better organized, seemed more numerous and seemed to have both logic and fear on their side, and that in fending them off in his own government, a President would need all the help he possibly could get, not the least of which should be a powerful Secretary of State.
~ David Halberstam
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
I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.
~ Elton Gallegly
The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.
~ Leon Trotsky
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."
~ William Safire
I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.
~ George W. Bush
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most influential woman in Washington - for what she has accomplished and for what she may yet do: win the presidency.
~ Ron Fournier
As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.
~ John Barrasso
I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.
~ Ted Deutch
All of these attacks on Secretary Clinton, at the end of the day, are character attacks.
~ David Brock
I know this: Secretary Clinton will fight for working families, and that's what I'm going to do as well.
~ Katie McGinty
Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwide high school course called 'The American Experience in Art.'
~ Terry Teachout
She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.
~ Rebecca Stead
She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school. And she tries to do it without getting out of her desk chair, which has wheels,
~ Rebecca Stead
I grabbed my book and rode the banisters down to the first floor, where I found Wheelie at her desk in the main office. She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.
~ Rebecca Stead
nature has arranged that when you overcome a given inertia the resulting momentum is proportionate. If I were to begin borrowing money I would end by devising means of persuading the Secretary of the Treasury to lend me the gold reserve.
~ Rex Stout
Of these, 79 had actually been removed from the service." Raymond's mother's subtraction of 79 cases from 286 cases left 207 cases, the number with which she had had Johnny kick off. She had made one other small change. The Secretary's actual language had been "recommendation against permanent employment," which she had changed to read: "members of the Communist party," which Johnny had adjusted to read: "card-carrying Communists.
~ Richard Condon
The secretary moved in to block Simon as I followed Thierry into the office. As the door closed, I heard her whisper, I think it's very sweet, you sticking up for your brother like that. I'm not trying to be sweet, Simon said, raising his voice so Thierry could hear. I'm trying to be fair. But apparently no one's interested in that.
~ Kelley Armstrong
We cannot forget [for example] that one of the big war factories in Germany was the Opel Company which was owned and financed by the General Motors Corporation, a company in which Secretary Stettinius had a great interest.
~ David Talbot