My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary.
As a former home secretary, I have access to and knowledge of the workings of the system in a way that individuals unfamiliar with the courts can never hope to have.
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
Democrats are committed to mapping a new direction in Iraq, and we will work with the President and the new Defense Secretary to ensure that the will of the American people guides our future actions.
I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it.
As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Secretary: Mr. Hackett's trying to get through to you. Max Schumacher: Tell Mr. Hackett to go fuck himself.
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.
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...
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.
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.
