Quotes about Secretar

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments. Votes: 1

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary. Votes: 1

Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days. Votes: 1

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have. Votes: 1

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company. Votes: 1

I have great respect for President Bush, Secretary Powell and Secretary Ridge. Votes: 1

Time brought along its secretary, memory, and space brought its brat, loneliness. Votes: 1

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself. Votes: 1

The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs. Votes: 1

Back off, boys. You don't want to mess with an out-of-work secretary. We're real testy. Votes: 1

My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star. Votes: 1

I am the Secretary of Secrecy. I've got filing cabinets and safe's full of Shh! Votes: 1

I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries. Votes: 1

Damn, girl, you type so shitastically fast. You should be a fucking secretary or something. Votes: 1

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school. Votes: 1

J.D. nodded. Yes, yes, fine, thank you. Nice attitude, by the way. Like boss, like secretary. Votes: 1

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever. Votes: 1

Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary. Votes: 1

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers. Votes: 1

I was studying to be a legal secretary when I was called to audition for 'Ken.' Votes: 1

I'm not a betting woman, but I have $50 on Secretariat with an old director friend of mine. Votes: 1

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people. Votes: 1

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary. Votes: 1

Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home Votes: 1

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle. Votes: 1

As press secretary, I spent countless hours defending the administration from the podium in the White House briefing room. Votes: 1

She'd fallen for him. How stupid. Secretary falls in love with her boss. What a tepid thing to do. Votes: 1

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. Votes: 1

Millionaires are marrying their secretaries because they are so busy making money they haven't time to see other girls. Votes: 1

During the Koizumi administration, I served as the Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary as well as the Chief Cabinet Secretary. Votes: 1

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life. Votes: 1

Without the Project I was nothing but a secretary on a road to nowhere, drifting toward frosted hair and menthol addiction. Votes: 1

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine. Votes: 1

As former secretary of state Madeleine Albright once said, There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. Votes: 1

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief? Votes: 1

Ethan, I don't go out with secretaries. Edward smiled at Sophia's petulant answerYou want to go out with me, you call me. Votes: 1

My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk. Votes: 1

In her first game of high-stakes diplomatic poker, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is leaving the table dressed only in a barrel. Votes: 1

Do I attribute my success to hard work, or sunscreen? If you want the truth, maybe you should ask my new albino secretary. Votes: 1

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary. Votes: 1

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, His confidence and compassion increase every day. Votes: 1

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life. Votes: 1

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture. Votes: 1

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother. Votes: 1

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. Votes: 1

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there. Votes: 1

Footman. Karl Marx, living in chronic indebtedness in Soho and often barely able to put food on the table, employed a housekeeper and a personal secretary. Votes: 1

Lord Kane, the king acknowledgedBefore the proceedings begin, we must say how thrilled we were to meet your PMS.Uh...My what? Your personal male secretary. Votes: 1

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary. Votes: 1

It is not for the State Department or even the Secretary of State to say when and how the resources of the American people will be spent. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from inadequate voting systems in various places. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Normally, I don't drink on the job, she said to Rafe, but damned if that old bastard hasn't given me a reason to start.(Sam, Graham Winters secretary) Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

In the first moments, the members of the Presidium who were with me at the Secretariat were taken to the Party Central Committee under the control of Soviet forces. Votes: 1

In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years. Votes: 1

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord. Vetinari looked at his secretary in surpriseWell, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West. Votes: 1

I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist. Votes: 1

Consciousness may be seen as the haughty and restless second cousin of morphology. Memory is its mistress, perception its somewhat abused wife, logic its housekeeper, and language its poorly paid secretary Votes: 1

There scotsmen must have arses like leather,for while he ate I could see naught beneath his kilts but a pair of rather large balls , the secretary told him . - philippa Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Secretary Rumsfeld used to represent parts of our district in the 1960s. I think that he and his team have done a masterful job in defeating Iraqi forces quickly and decisively. Votes: 1

I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it. Votes: 1

My husband ran off with his secretary. His male secretary. the only passion I have lately seems to center around buying a handgun. Unfortunately, I can't decide which one of us to shoot. Votes: 1

We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London. Votes: 1

I was with Ted Turner when he came to see Kofi Annan - the Secretary-General of the UN - to announce his decision to put $1 billion to the service of UN projects and programs. Votes: 1

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand. Votes: 1

Utilitarianism: If we Britiash were Utilitarians we would have to believe that imprisoning the innocent and torturing suspects was justified if the Home Secretary thought it a good thing for our peace of mind. Votes: 1

After all the screaming in our house, there reigned, that winter on Middlesex, only silence. A silence so profound that, like the left foot of the President's secretary, it erased portions of the official record. Votes: 1

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate. Votes: 1

FDR had been Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They told me, now forgotten, just how many pictures of ships they took out of the White House after he died. But he could choose good men. Votes: 1

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary. Votes: 1

Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.Do you mean you want a secretary or something?No, I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool. Votes: 1

On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat. Votes: 1

I don't use the computer. But my secretary does. I want to take some computer courses because I'm interested in some of the access to some of the illegal things on the Internet. I'm just kidding. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought. Votes: 1

What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality. Votes: 1

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization. Votes: 1

It was [Hugh's] omnipresent fear that some woman might be foisted on him who would turn out to be an adventuress and would blackmail him. This preoccupation made it almost impossible for him to engage a secretary. Votes: 1

I lived at admiralty house from 2002 until 2006 on advice from special branch on security grounds as defence secretary. The alternative of providing comprehensive security at my personal property would have entailed significant extra costs to the taxpayer. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray. Votes: 1

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

You're rather young, Miss Danner, Mary summarized, her pale blue gaze scraping Lauren's face and figure.I'm aging quickly, Laruen replied. Ignoring the older woman's piercing look, she settled into the secretarial desk opposite Mary's in the large officec. Votes: 1

I bit my lip. 'Come on then, you dirty old man.' I stepped forward and smacked a kiss on Baz's lips. He looked petrified. The secretary looked horrified. I felt vindicated. 'Run along now, Daddy.' I said. Votes: 1

Phone service is back up and Devyn calls Issie, and then leaves to bring her over. Gram calls Mrs. Nix, the school secretary.She's a bear, Betty exclaims after she hangs up the phoneI trust her.I don't even blink. Votes: 1

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked. Votes: 1

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere. Votes: 1

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously. Votes: 1

Getting a group of rowdy, blue-collar workers together in one room and putting in a tape that shows a guy in a leisure suit putting his hand on his secretary's ass and you've got complete and total anarchy, ladies and gentleman. Votes: 1

What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be, like, a really big tomboy. Votes: 1

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. Votes: 1

As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared the future. He would give this reply: 'Mr. Secretary-General, it is the past which scares the bejesus out of me. Votes: 1

Do you mean to tell me that Mr. Trevor read my letter? demanded Lady Buxted indignantlyYour secretary?I employ him to read my letters, explained his lordship.(Alverstroke)Not those written by your nearest and dearest!Oh, no, not them! he agreed. Votes: 1

I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department. Votes: 1

There was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe -- the only lady private detective in Botwana -- brewed tea. And three mugs -- one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Votes: 1

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here. Votes: 1

In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences. Votes: 1

I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at night while I was working as the receptionist for a Baptist church. That was an interesting conversation with the pastor. Votes: 1

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the NHS: from a culture responsive mainly to orders from the top down to one responsive to patients, in which patient safety is put first. Votes: 1

God, you don't just barge in on my father, and definitely not my mother.No way. You check with their personal secretaries first. Check out their moods. Then you make an appointment to slip in. There are basic things you learn when your parents run a planet. Votes: 1

There, I was just a secretary-shaped confederation of atoms, fighting the inevitability of mediocrity and decay. But here, in the Juliaverse... energy was never lost, merely converted from one form to another. Here, I took butter and cream and meat and eggs and I made delicious sustenance. Votes: 1

It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right. Votes: 1

In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own. Votes: 1

Is he a sophomore? Lydia saysPlease tell me he's in our grade.I don't know, I sayBut weren't you there when he came to the office? Peyton says.The secretary didn't get out her bullhorn and announce what grade he's in. She just took him to meet Headmaster Perkins. Votes: 1

You don't treat the so-called little people poorly, because we don't have any little people here! The trainers, the managers, the secretaries, the people who work in the dorms and cafeterias and classroom buildings are all professionals, and they're all important or they wouldn't be working for Michigan football. Votes: 1

From the pastor who has an affair with his secretary, to the jerk at the office who happens to be a deacon, to the overbearing boss who can't miss his Monday night Bible study, Christians today cause more problems for the gospel than all the devil's demons put together. Votes: 1

Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would. Votes: 1

Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point. Votes: 1

My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity. Votes: 1

I will stay very focused on my responsibilities as Secretary of Commerce and the economy's doing well. I mean, you asked about some of the challenges that we have or what is going on in the world and you know I, I'm pleased to report that the economy is doing extremely well. Votes: 1

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling. Votes: 1

Ashoke suspects that Mrs. Jones (the secretary at his new job as a professor) ...is about his own mother's age. Mrs. Jones leads a life that Ashoke's mother would consider humiliating: eating alone, driving herself to work in snow and sleet, seeing her children and grandchildren, at most, three or four times a year. Votes: 1

Churchill was in the lavatory in the House of Commons and his secretary knocked on the door and said: Excuse me Prime Minister, but the Lord Privy Seal wishes to speak to you. After a pause Churchill replied: Tell His Lordship: I'm sealed on The Privy and can only deal with one shit at a time Votes: 1

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job. Votes: 1

It was rainy, trees leafing out, spring deepening into summer; and the forlorn cry of horns on the street, the dank smell of the wet pavement had an electricity about it, a sense of crowds and static, lonely secretaries and fat guys with bags of carry-out, everywhere the ungainly sadness of creatures pushing and struggling to live. Votes: 1

My brother was on his wayto a dental appointmentwhen the second plane hitfour stories below the officewhere he worked. He's neversaid anything about the guywho took football bets, howhe liked to watch his secretarywalk, the friends he ate lunch with,all the funerals. Maybe, shamedby his luck, he keeps quiet,afraid someone might guesshow good he feels, breathing. Votes: 1

Multitask? What do I look like, a fucking secretary? My temper flared before I could bite it back. Erica wasn't the only one with a big mouth. I was constantly in danger of writing checks my ass couldn't cash, the bearer of a lifelong disease of potty mouth that no amount of soap in this world could properly cleanse. Votes: 1

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth. Votes: 1

Let's look at this rationally...We've got a doctor who may kill him, an Attorney General who wants to declare him bananas, and a Defense Secretary who wants me to start World War III...First, we ruled out starting World War III. We were down to killing the President or having him carted off by the men in white coats... Votes: 1

Pilfering was common in Communist China's state-owned enterprises, as the Party secretaries were slack in guarding properties that belonged to the government and poorly paid workers felt it fair compensation for their low pay. The practice was so widespread that it was an open secret. The workers joked about it and called it Communism, which in Chinese translation means sharing property. Pg. 390 Votes: 1

At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on. Votes: 1

The numbers were, at best, guesstimates, and all three men knew it. The relevant figure would ultimately be the one that represented the most they could possibly ask from Congress without raising too many questions. Whatever that sum turned out to be, they knew they could count on (Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury) Kashkari to perform some sort of mathematical voodoo to justify it: Votes: 1

That is the greatest sin of all. You can make money under the table and move ahead, but you are forbidden to make secretaries under the sheets. He has dumped several party members for violating his personal moral standards. If something is leaked to the press, the bigmouth will be tracked down and punished. Scandals aren't public scandals if you get there before you enemies do. Votes: 1

Even before his eyes began to fail he had his secretaries read to him, and then he read no other way because of the annoyance that eyeglasses caused him. But his interest in what he read was decreasing at the same time, and as always he attributed this to a cause beyond his control.The fact is there are fewer and fewer good books, he would say. Votes: 1

The boar held a VCR reote control and cackled maliciously as he watched a video of U.S. politicians grinning with their one-time budy Saddam--Dick Cheney, Gulf War-era Secretary of State James Baker, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush, to the tune of Taking Care of Business. And then the viewers saw themselves in a mirror emblazoned with the words You are a witness. Votes: 1

Meant, Cheryl. He was quick to make a saveI just got off the phone with my secretary. Her name's Monique, and she has a million things for me to do in the morning. He was relieved when he watched her nod her head in understanding. His secretary's name is Carolyn, but she'd never know that either. Daniel was hoping she wouldn't insist on him coming inside. The gift Votes: 1