| "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 |
| "labor disgraces no man unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor." »Ulysses S. Grant |
| "A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." »Victor Hugo |
| "Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel." »William Hazlitt |
| "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just." »Anita Brookner |
| "Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls." »Gaston Bachelard |
| "Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets." »Anthony Burgess |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character." »Antonin Scalia |
| "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 |
| "Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done." »Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| "There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking." »Thomas Alva Edison |
| "The most popular labor-saving device is still money." »Phyllis George |
| "Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first." »Brooks Atkinson |
| "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious." »Francis Bacon |
| "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." »Albert Einstein |
| "The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor." »Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun |
| "Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.(When I labor to be brief, I become obscure.)" »Horace |
| "Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another." »Anatole France |
| "One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do." »Victor Hugo |
| "He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor." »Menander |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
