#secretary

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

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The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before. ↗

— Pierre Salinger

#been #before #day #different #different world

The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews. ↗

— Julius Streicher

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Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages. ↗

— Ariel Dorfman

#fate #power #responsibility #secretary #through

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis. ↗

— Theresa May

#arrive #basis #briefing #daily #daily basis

Women have traditionally took secondary roles to men. I want to be the boss not the secretary. ↗

— Bianca Frazier

#feminism #secretary #women #men