The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.
I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture.
I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
The day of the press statement has gone.
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.
Noodles: Who is Secretary Bailey? Deborah Gelly: Secretary Bailey is a rich businessman. He came to the United States as an immigrant and made a lot of money in San Francisco and L.A., where he's lived for 30 years. Noodles: I know all that, it's all...
With the press there is no 'off the record.'
I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory, and I knew I had to do something remarkable.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.
If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.
I do not go lightly. If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.
Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.
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.
I hate to say that my mother was 'just a housewife', because in addition to that she has had lots of part-time secretarial jobs in factories and hospitals, always working really hard for our family.
What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be, like, a really big tomboy.
I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.
What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.
I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.
As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.
