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Quotes About Secretary

The goal, Sister Clare had taught them in school, was shorthand so neat and so legible that anyone can pick up your steno book and type your letters for you. So neat and so legible, she had said, smiling at them from within her wimple, that if you elope on your lunch hour, another secretary can finish your letters for you that afternoon.
~ Alice McDermott
I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
~ Fawn Hall
Republicans have relentlessly pursued investigations of Hillary Clinton, going back to her time as secretary of state (to say nothing of the 30-year project to take down both Clintons by right-wing outside groups).
~ Joy Reid
There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.
~ William Hague
We made mistakes in 2018, as a candidate and as a campaign. I had not campaigned in 25 years, and people forgot me, they forgot my contributions as a congressman, they forgot my contributions as a cabinet secretary.
~ Mike Espy
Dr. Bates, the Hardys' family physician, had his office at home, a rambling stone house a few blocks from Elm Street. The boys found the office entrance open, and the secretary-nurse allowed them to see the doctor at once. Frank explained why they
~ Franklin W. Dixon
After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job. It was a real small place. Guys would come in, and they'd sort of stick out their arms like wings so I could take their coats off. They'd tell me, 'Two,' and I'd put two lumps of sugar in their coffee.
~ William T. Vollmann
His secretary, who acted as interpreter, was to say, later, that this glance of hatred was the first sign he had given of returning health.
~ Romain Gary
Paul O'Neill, Bush's first secretary of the treasury, revealed that at the very first National Security Council meeting the subject of attacking Iraq was on the agenda for discussion. O'Neill lasted in the administration until December of 2002 when he was fired for disagreeing with Bush on the Iraq War and for expressing the danger of the large deficits.
~ Ron Paul
Why is it that Alsop is writing such a letter, warning Israel that it stands in danger of destruction and reminding it that it has only one protector? It is because "bad trouble has begun between Israel and America." For one thing, Alsop is shocked by Israel's ingratitude to Secretary of State Kissinger.
~ Saul Bellow
Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.
~ Felicia Day
Email is your servant. Corner-office people have secretaries to prevent them from being interrupted.… Email will do all this for you too." His advice: Turn off all notifications; you should control when you want information, not the reverse.
~ Arianna Huffington
If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments.
~ Art Buchwald
Clearly, the qualities Poles admire in a secretary of state - foreign languages, diplomatic experience, even sense of humor - are emphatically not those desired in a head of state: So be it.
~ Anne Applebaum
Ordinaries, that church law was above the reach of the secular authorities. He was now an outsider, still officially secretary
~ G.J. Meyer
On an annual basis you are essentially paying the extra cost of maintaining a Nevada corporation—$325 to the Nevada secretary of state and $125 (or so) for a resident agent in Nevada.
~ Garrett Sutton
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
Richard Diamond was also seen on TV (1957–60), but the role as played by David Janssen bore little resemblance to the Powell original. The most notable gimmick of the TV series was the addition of a secretary, Sam, who was seen only as a pair of gorgeous legs (which belonged to Mary Tyler Moore). The radio show was charming, though peppered with moments of genuine silliness. A solid run is available on tape. Powell, though at ease with the microphone, did tend to fluff.
~ John Dunning
Secretary Perry became the 19th secretary of defense and the first enlisted man to serve in that role. He had time in the highest ranks of the Pentagon and was instrumental in the dismantlement of the nuclear warheads in the United States and Russia. Throughout his career, he has devoted himself to protecting the interests of the nation.
~ Richard Lugar
My sister and I graduated from Arizona State University where she was president and I was secretary of the College Republicans.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
~ Dennis Miller
When I first got friendly with Woody, he and Mia were finished with their romance and were just friends. I think Mia would have been just as angry if he had taken up with another actress or his secretary.
~ Soon-Yi Previn
We know darned well that in Bosnia, certain governments and the secretary had said tens of thousands are needed in Srebrenica and those people were never provided.
~ Alex Morrison
As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.
~ Douglas Alexander