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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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"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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"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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"Someone must stand up to those who say, Here's the key, there's the treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want." »Ronald Reagan
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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even." »Will Rogers
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage." »Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)
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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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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury." »Alexander Tyler
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"In all that belongs to man you cannot find a greater wonder than memory. What a treasury of all things! What a record! What a journal of all! As if provident Nature, because she would have man circumspect, had furnished him with an account-book, to carry always with him. Yet it neither burthens nor takes up room." »Feltham
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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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"One quick and effective solution to the global economic crisis is a global economic and political reset. A global economic reset means that world leaders can come together to agree on debt forgiveness to all nations and restructuring of the global economy. Friends and enemies alike, no exceptions. To be fair to nations with lesser debts, they could be compensated on a ratio basis to enjoy treasury surpluses. A new international trade and reserve currency will probably be established to create a fair global economic system and to implement the reset. This could bring a new era of global prosperity and socioeconomic exchange. This is a much better alternative than currency wars, international hostilities and continuous risks of global socioeconomic shocks." »Med Jones
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