Top 42 Quotes About Being A Secretary
#1. Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.
Carl Hiaasen
#2. Aster was eager for any kind of
Chance. She had only wanted a chance. A way out, a greater story than the one that had been written for her, just like I had wanted. Tell my bapa I tried, Miz. A chance to control her own destiny. But for her, escape was impossible.
Mary E. Pearson
#3. I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.
Joseph R. McCarthy
#4. He called himself her pimp, except for the fact, he said, that he didn't like standing in the night air.
Charlie LeDuff
#5. There is only one person in the State Department that can sign off on State Department personnel being in a facility that doesn't meet security standards, and it's the secretary of state.
James Lankford
#6. Why bother with a trial? If the cops can't convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.
John Grisham
#7. Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.
Brenda Blethyn
#8. I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
Pearl S. Buck
#9. For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.
Madeleine Albright
#10. Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after.
Max Weiss
#11. I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.
Fawn Hall
#12. Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#13. I didn't have a dream of being a press secretary, I had a dream of being a playwright; I had a dream of being a novelist and a poet.
Pearl Cleage
#14. I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.
Hillary Clinton
#15. The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205 - a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.
Joseph McCarthy
#16. It's impossible to be someone you're not, so quit trying. I am as passionate about my hobbies as I am about my work and my family. All three are equally important to me at all times.
Gautam Singhania
#17. I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural America constantly being criticized, without any expression of appreciation for what they do do.
Tom Vilsack
#18. Look, being president of the United States is the toughest job in the world and I can tell you, as someone who has worked with Secretary Clinton and competed against her that she is a tough person who is ready to do this job.
Martin O'Malley
#19. I never much cared for politics. I love policy, and I love international policy in particular. I got to be Secretary of State; it really doesn't get much better than that. I love what I do. I love being a professor.
Condoleezza Rice
#20. This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.
Biz Stone
#21. in all the vastness of the world, the deepest adventure is not of war or mortal danger, but of heart, of soul, of the infinite discovery of a beloved other.
A.S. Peterson
#22. The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.
Wendell Berry
#23. The biggest challenge of being the press secretary is trying to be aware of all of the things that are happening, both around the world but also here at home and in politics, and trying to absorb all of that information as quickly as I can.
Josh Earnest
#24. As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
David Blunkett
#25. I was shadow health secretary for six years, and the beauty of being in opposition - if there is any beauty - is that you tend to get a pretty unvarnished view because no one bothers to paint the coal white before you turn up.
Andrew Lansley
#26. Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.
Larry Speakes
#27. The business being thus closed ... dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.
George Washington
#28. I was Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence for two years prior to being appointed Defence Secretary.
Bob Ainsworth
#29. Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.
David Blunkett
#30. New Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that he is open to letting transgender people serve in the military. He said there's no reason to prevent people from being generals just because of their privates.
Jimmy Fallon
#31. Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
Jemima Khan
#32. The soul faithfully comes to our aid through dreams, deep emotion, love, the quiet voice of guidance, synchronicities, revelations, hunches, and visions, and at times through illness, nightmares, and terrors.
Bill Plotkin
#33. We took an approach, supported by the Prime Minister, the Home Secretary and the Mayor for London, that we had very real fears of violence and damage being caused across the streets of London.
Michael Todd
#34. Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.
David Blunkett
#35. The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
Bing Gordon
#36. I was a typical American boy. I did a lot of outdoor activities, played a lot outside with my friends, loved to go the beach, liked to hike, boating and fishing, and I flew a lot of model airplanes as well.
Alan G. Poindexter
#37. When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down.
Stephen King
#38. Secretary of state is far superior to vice president, because it's involved in continuously solving problems and making policy and not being on standby.
Gloria Steinem
#39. I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.
Hugo Chavez
#40. I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.
Madeleine Albright
#41. Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
John Maynard Keynes
#42. The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds
my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say
unless I mess up.
William J. Clinton
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