Secretary Quotes

The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews.

Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

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.

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.

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.

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.

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.

The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.

You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.

I do not go lightly. If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

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.

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.

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.

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

Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.

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.

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

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