Trampy Secretary Quotes

Protests can sometimes, necessarily, simplify things. ~ Madam Secretary

They grew up thinking that all conflict is injustice. ~ Madam Secretary

I do have to prioritize my end-of-the-world documents. ~ Madam Secretary

When everything seems to be lacking integrity, you find it in yourself. ~ Madam Secretary

You can LOBBY anyone. It is the great equalizer." – Chief of Staff Russell Jackson ~ Madam Secretary

I want to be so successful that my secretary needs a secretary. ~ Jarod Kintz

Lawyers are lubricants are complicated social intercourse. ~ Madam Secretary

By the year 2000 every secretary will have a favorite typeface. ~ Roger Black

Begging your pardon, but I'm not just a secretary. I seriously, seriously despised it when people called secretaries and administrative professionals just a secretary. Being a secretary was a multitasking marathon, a daily gauntlet of making everyone happy all the time. ~ Penny Reid

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

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have. ~ William Kristol

During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary. ~ Shinzo Abe

We need heroes who'll inspire us so that maybe next time we'll dig a little deeper and find our best self. ~ Madam Secretary

My plans didn't include spending my life enslaved as someone's secretary ~ Scarlet Risque

No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary. ~ Robertson Davies

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened. ~ Randall Terry

A secretary is not a toy. ~ Frank Loesser

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me. ~ Madeleine Albright

I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state. ~ Walid Muallem

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal. ~ William Hague

I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away. ~ Stephen Fry

I fully, fully concede that Secretary Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of State for four years, has more experience - hat is not arguable - in foreign affairs. ~ Bernie Sanders

Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours. ~ Madam Secretary

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

I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy. ~ Madeleine Albright

I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that. ~ Condoleezza Rice

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 am very glad, Anderson, that secretary Clinton discovered religion on this issue but it's a little bit too late. Secretary Clinton supported virtually every one of the disastrous trade agreements written by corporate America. ~ Bernie Sanders

Wow, the entire network of anchors has been hired to be the press secretary. ~ Jon Stewart

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

We need to forgive the adolescent versions of ourselves, if only because we need the practice to forgive those who are maturing awkwardly in our lives. ~ Madam Secretary

Former Secretary (Hillary) Clinton has dedicated her life to serving and engaging people across the world in democracy. These efforts as a citizen, an activist, and a leader have earned Secretary Clinton this year's Liberty Medal. ~ Jeb Bush

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

In Israel, we read from right to left. [To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third'] ~ Golda Meir

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning. ~ Donald Rumsfeld

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position. ~ Hillary Clinton

As a former secretary of defense, I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best secretary of defense the United States has ever had. ~ Dick Cheney

The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people. ~ William Bennett

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary. ~ Laurie Metcalf

Of course, Bro! Eat your vegetables and play oodles of hockey, and your butt can be anything it wants to be.' 'Even Secretary of State?' 'E-SPECIALLY Secretary of State! ~ Ngozi Ukazu

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people. ~ George P. Shultz

If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world. ~ Naji Sabri

The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be
homemaker, mother, secretary, executive. ~ Warren Farrell

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

I am certainly not a blogger. Quite a large proportion of them are nuts and extremists - with the honourable exception of the culture secretary. ~ Kenneth Clarke

Listen, I would never judge someone who screwed their babysitter for years or knocked up their secretary, so don't ask me to. ~ Pat Martin

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration. ~ Robert M. Gates

I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida. ~ George W. Bush

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about. ~ Joan Juliet Buck

The first thing the secretary types is the boss. ~ Donald Trump

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. ~ Dean Rusk

If Hollywood didn't work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world. ~ Bette Davis

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

Both Bush as well as Tony Blair are undermining an idea [the United Nations]. Is this because the secretary general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary generals were white. ~ Nelson Mandela

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now. ~ Fareed Zakaria

The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War. ~ Nikola Tesla

President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza Rice an excellent choice. ~ Michael Crapo

The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. ~ Dean Acheson

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

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

Well I should be sitting in an air-conditioned office in a swivel chair, talking trash to the secretary. Saying, hey now mama, come on over here. ~ Jim Croce

I had a cup of tea with Michael Howard after my appointment shortly after I became Home Secretary, and without telling tales out of school, shortly after I became Home Secretary, and he said that when people used to ask him whether he enjoyed it he'd reply that "enjoy" wasn't quite the right description. ~ Theresa May

Say what you will, there is something fine about our old aristocracy. I'll bet Trotsky couldn't hit a moving secretary with an egg on a dark night. ~ P.G. Wodehouse

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture. ~ Tom Vilsack

Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state. ~ Chris Matthews

I do think it's strange that I get associated with Iraq more than the people who were Foreign Secretary or Defence Secretary. It's because of my closeness to Tony [Blair], which I don't regret at all. I think that was a privilege. ~ Alastair Campbell

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

I've noticed that a lot of people, subsequently, when they introduce me are very careful not to say the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt. A lot more people are saying Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport. ~ Jeremy Hunt

And then you've got President Clinton who made the case as only he can. After he spoke, somebody sent out a tweet- they said, you should appoint him secretary of explaining stuff. I like that- secretary of explaining stuff. Although, I have to admit, it didn't really say stuff. I cleaned that up a little bit. ~ Barack Obama

Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss ... while objectionable to many women, [it] is not a coercive action. It is rather part of a package deal in which the secretary agrees to all aspects of the job when she agrees to accept the job, and especially when she agrees to keep the job. The office is, after all, private property. The secretary does not have to remain if the 'coercion' is objectionable. ~ Walter Block

I'm not a T.G.I.F. guy. I get off a plane at 2 o'clock in the morning and I'm looking for my secretary because I want to know what's going on. ~ Vijay Mallya

Egypt is in the second day of angry street protests. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is calling for calm. Because nothing calms an enraged Arab country like a powerful woman ordering it around. ~ Conan O'Brien

Pope John Paul II's press secretary, who said, See, if only the Pope were Italian, he woulda shot back! Never got a dinner! ~ Red Buttons

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

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. ~ Ariel Dorfman

One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to take care of all of them myself. ~ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host. ~ Desiree Rogers

People didn't think that a woman could be the Secretary of State, when my name was out there ... but then the Arab Ambassadors at the UN said 'We have no problem dealing with Ambassador Albright, and we would have no problem dealing with Secretary Albright.' ~ Madeleine Albright

I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday, ~ Harry Reid

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me. ~ Peter Hain

Secretary of State Clinton dared Iran on Monday to let her hold a town hall meeting in Tehran. That's telling 'em. If the ayatollahs had a sense of humor, they'd call her bluff. ~ Mark Steyn

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change ... ~ Elizabeth Dole

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out. ~ Stuart Symington

We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator [Berny] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together. ~ Jeff Merkley

I never dreamed about one day becoming Secretary of State. It's not that I was modest; it's just that I had never seen a Secretary of State in a skirt. ~ Madeleine Albright

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries. ~ Hillary Clinton

I think what the secretary Hillary Clinton has recognized is the American people are extremely angry about the power of Wall Street, the greed, the illegal behavior of Wall Street. ~ Bernie Sanders

And the Marshall Plan, to us, meant a general who had turned into a secretary of state, and that the secretary of state saw the necessity of the reconstruction of these European countries that had suffered so heavily. ~ Giovanni Agnelli

Although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one. ~ Corinne Maier

To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in mail one day and be like, I'm Secretary of State next month! ~ Wanda Sykes

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson

The important point was that whatever errors America had made [in Vietnam] "we are so powerful [according to Secretary Kissinger] that Hanoi is simply unable to defeat us militarily" and must therefore eventually be forced to compromise. ~ William Shawcross

So on the Tuesday night deadline, while Abu Qatada was appealing to European Court judges, the Home Secretary, who thought the deadline was Monday night, was partying with X Factor judges. When the Home Secretary is accused of not knowing what day of the week it is, confusion and chaos have turned into farce. ~ Yvette Cooper

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House. ~ Richard Armitage

I have to say, that I am delighted that Secretary [Hillary] Clinton month after month after month seems to be adopting more and more of the positions that we have advocated. ~ Hillary Clinton

I have asked the secretary of the treasury to report by April 1 on whether present tax laws may be stimulating in undue amounts the flow of American capital to the industrial countries abroad through special preferential treatment. ~ John F. Kennedy

I agree with the secretary [Hillary Clinton] that I think what has to happen - and let me just mention what King Abdullah of Jordan said. I think he hit the nail on the head. ~ Hillary Clinton

For five years he [Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)] served as personal secretary to, yes, Francis Bacon. In fact, I've noted over a course of years that the job of a secretary can be utterly fulfilling just in case one's boss happens to be Francis Bacon. ~ Daniel N. Robinson

I think the Obama administration, whether it's in his first term or second term, is totally committed to the search for peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and we greatly appreciate the president's effort, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the first administration, now Secretary of State John Kerry. ~ Michael Oren

Another scandal for Hillary Clinton - they're saying she used a private email address when she was secretary of state, which means the government couldn't archive and preserve her emails. Then Obama said, 'Don't worry, we saw them. We see everyone's emails.' ~ Jimmy Fallon