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"Well, Mr. secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill" »Robert C. Byrd
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"The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people." »William John Bennett
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"Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"If you want to make certain a job gets done, give it to somebody who is really busy. They'll have their secretary do it." »Joe Moore
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"Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people." »George Pratt Shultz
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"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
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"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
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"Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state." »David Dean Rusk
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"You're so goddamned concerned about the civilians, and I don't give a damn. to secretary of State Henry Kissinger on civilian casualties in Vietnam" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"chief of the Army." »Napoleon Bonaparte, last words, 1821
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"What is man's chief enemy Each man is his own." »Anacharsis Cloots
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"Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief." »William Shakespeare
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"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education." »Sir Walter Scott
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"The home is the chief school of human virtues." »William Ellery Channing
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"The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception." »Baron Manfred von Richthofen ("Red Baron")
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"The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty." »Nelson Rockefeller
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"A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time." »John Stuart Mill
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"When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated." »H.L. Mencken
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"The chief proof of mans greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness." »Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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"At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets." »Oscar Wilde
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"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything." »Robert Frost
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"The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore." »H. L. Mencken
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"The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player." »George Bernard Shaw
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"The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were." »Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom." »Cyril Northcote Parkinson
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