Best Secretary Quotes

I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention.

Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders except by my command, . . . I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport . . . without my command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one.

The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of New York.

Senator Jeff Sessions is reportedly on the [Donald] Trump shortlist to be either the next Secretary of Defense or the next Attorney General of the United States.

The reason we’ve always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought to control the military and not have the military control the military.

Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have.

The revenge of history is more powerful than the revenge of the most powerful General Secretary.

Rudy Giuliani is on the list [of Secretary of State ] not because of competence, not because of foreign policy experience, he`s on most entirely because of loyalty to Donald Trump.

The rumored frontrunner for [Donald] Trump`s Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani who of course has no foreign policy experience.

To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.

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.

Women occupy, in great masses, the ‘household tasks’ of industry. They are nurses but not doctors, secretaries but not executives, researchers but not writers, workers but not managers, bookkeepers but not promoters.

Once Donald Trump announced that Betsy DeVos was going to be his Education Secretary – a few months before I finished the manuscript – I had a pretty good idea of what was going to happen. He was going to overturn as much of what Barack Obama did, and the attendant social progress, as he could.

Back in 2007, many people criticized me for my talk at the Munich Security Conference. But what did I say there? I merely pointed out that the former NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner had guaranteed that NATO would not expand eastwards after the fall of the Wall.

Since his arrival, the new secretary of state has not held a single press conference. On his first big trip to Europe last month for the G20 summit, Rex Tillerson said less than 50 words in total in response to press questions.

As secretary of state you can go out in a helmet if you want to. Even in Switzerland in front of reporters.

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

Since I walked in the door as secretary of energy, I’ve been doing everything in our powers to do what we can to reduce these gas prices. … So, of course we don’t want the price of gasoline to go up; we want it to go down.

Embedded reputations – that’s one of the most daunting dynamics that can happen. You start as a secretary, or assistant, and you have that plastered on your forehead. My advice is that you have to do something – change companies, get a degree, or go to a training program. Or ask to be on a very hard assignment or project that no one else wants. You can do it, but it doesn’t happen without true exertion.

Exxon [is one] of the biggest companies in the world. We’ll find out whether it’s [Rex Tillerson] or someone else on the list and so, listen, it’s not a done deal. And it’s premature. But I will tell you that I think this person is incredibly talented and could do a very good job as secretary of state.

What hasn’t been talked about a lot is that President Trump signed an order that puts in place a constant deregulatory form within the federal government. And what it says is, for every regulation presented for passage that Cabinet secretary has to identify two that person would eliminate. And that’s a big deal.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are married, so under the law, paying him for a speech is like giving money directly to her [Hillary Clinton] – to the Secretary of State. I cannot think of a comparable ‘pay to play’ scandal.

Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were no longer needed.

Russia and [Vladimir] Putin`s antipathy toward Hillary Clinton from her time as secretary of state, Russia`s antipathy and loathing and fear of the U.S. State Department in general, those two – those things that we know about Russia they put a worrying cast over how successfully the new administration here has hollowed out and emptied out the U.S. State Department in just the few weeks since then been in charge.

These are career non-partisan apolitical staffers with a combined 150 years of experience at the State Department gone, just like that right off the top [right after Secretary Rex Tillerson was sworn in].

The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I’d been in the day before.

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.

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

I also think we have got other great choices to make. The conclusion has not been made. There’s no announcement that’s coming today, as far as Secretary of State is concerned.

Certainly, we shouldn’t go about making a habit of taking generals and making them secretary of defense.

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.

Michele Flournoy, by the way, is not just a talented and bright person. She was Hillary Clinton’s secretary of defense in-waiting. So for her to give General [James] Mattis her support, that says something significant.

I know President Obama and Secretary Clinton are committed to bringing America together. This needs to be a time of redemption, not a time of recrimination.

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

Secretary Hillary Clinton for four years was part of a policy of resetting Russian relations with Russia in our interests.