#secretary

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. ↗

— Elihu Root

#get #lincoln #men #ought #out

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people. ↗

— George P. Shultz

#i #i am #just #know #oh

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#also #brainy #brilliant #defense #disastrous

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers. ↗

— Trent Lott

#fan #his #i #listens #officers

What I found when I became Secretary of State was a lot of doubts and a lot of concerns and fears from friends, allies, around the world. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#around #became #concerns #doubts #fears

These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#defense #deserve #secretary #soldiers #than

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country. ↗

— Donald Rumsfeld

#civilian #commander-in-chief #control #country #defense

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state. ↗

— Dean Rusk

#give #junket #machine #member #secretary

I didn't run off with the secretary. It made it seem like I had committed adultery and then ran off with a secretary, neither of which happened. ↗

— Randall Terry

#committed #had #happened #i #like

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. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#chancellor #foreign #give #i #jobs