| "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 |
| "The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people." »William John Bennett |
| "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 |
| "There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule." »Samuel Butler |
| "I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "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 |
| "Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people." »George Pratt Shultz |
| "The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state." »David Dean Rusk |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "general Failure's Fault. Not Yours." »Anonymous |
| "In general we are least aware of what our minds do best." »Marvin Minsky |
| "All general statements are false." »Unknown |
| "Men, in general, are but great children." »Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "The grave is the general meeting place." »Thomas Fuller |
| "You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." »Scott Adams |
| "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." »John Adams |
| "Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it." »Anonymous |
| "Who's general Failure and why's he reading my disk" »Anonymous |
| "general principles should not be based on exceptional cases." »Robert J. Sawyer |
| "Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had." »Aristotle |
| "The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular." »Edward Gibbon |
| "In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
| "For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe." »Larry Eisenberg |
| "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 |
| "In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge." »William Baker |
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