| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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