Secretary Quotes · Page 4

As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

— David Blunkett

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

— Dick Cheney

My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

— Patsy Kensit

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

— Michael Bloomberg

I'm the most transparent secretary of state because of that. I've been willing to say, "OK, read them [emails] all."

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Madeleine Albright

Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.

— Mia Bloom

Personally, I think Mitt Romney would be a great secretary of state.

— David Brooks

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We…

— Anonymous

Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama,…

— Jim Croce

I've noticed that a lot of people, subsequently, when they introduce me are very careful not to say the Culture Secretary Jeremy…

— Jeremy Hunt

I also think we have got other great choices to make. The conclusion has not been made. There's no announcement that's coming…

— Reince Priebus

Secretary Clinton and I have worked well together, but the Arab Spring is a different question... This administration, collectively, made some very…

— Jim Webb

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It…

— Kofi Annan

I think what the secretary Hillary Clinton has recognized is the American people are extremely angry about the power of Wall Street,…

— Bernie Sanders

The president-elect Donald Trump moved a bit closer to getting his Cabinet in place with another round of confirmation hearings. The most…

— Judy Woodruff

The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the…

— Kofi Annan

And at the UN she took the advice - she had to take the advice - of the State Department and the…

— William A. Rusher

We've got characters in the UK like Boris Johnson, who's kind of like a proto Trump in many ways even down to…

— Charlie Brooker

I have been tested. I have beaten breast cancer. I have buried a child. I started as a secretary. I fought my…

— Carly Fiorina

After college, I went to San Francisco and worked as a secretary in a reinsurance company. That was a pretty dismal job.…

— William T. Vollmann

My mum told me the best time to ask my dad for anything was during sex. Not the best advice I'd ever…

— Jimmy Carr

I lived at admiralty house from 2002 until 2006 on advice from special branch on security grounds as defence secretary. The alternative…

— Geoff Hoon

Mitt Romney looks like a secretary of state. He looks like the chancellor of the exchequer.

— Mark Shields

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

— Jane Fonda

If President Nixon's secretary, Rosemary Woods, had been Moses' secretary, there would only be eight commandments.

— Art Buchwald

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

— Madeleine Albright

When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

— Hillary Clinton

The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.

— Jacob Braude

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

— Ellen Goodman

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.

— Victoria Abril

Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off.

— Paul Keating

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

— Warren Buffett

I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge.

— Elton Gallegly

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

— Eddie Glaude

I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state

— Dean Rusk

I was one of the most visible and vocal advocates of Secretary Hillary Clinton.

— David Brock

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to…

— Ronald Reagan