#secretary

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#company #dealing #educations #ended #father

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere. ↗

— Sally Quinn

#became #before #colin #colin powell #even

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

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

I grew up in a city. My parents would think there was something wrong with America if they knew I was secretary of agriculture. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#america #city #grew #i #knew

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

#america #any #appreciation #being #constantly

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#friends #going #how #i #job

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#children #divorce #fire #forever #remain

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal. ↗

— William Hague

#britain #criminal #give #home #people

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary. ↗

— William Hague

#foreign #secretary #shadow #travel