(191 quotes found)
“When in 1966 Charles de Gaulle ordered France out of NATO and American troops off French soil, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him if that included the American soldiers lying dead in the cemeteries at Normandy and throughout France”
Charles Krauthammer
“To his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain, "There's something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no reason."”
William S. Burroughs
“The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.”
Dean Acheson
“Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.”
T.E. Lawrence
“(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion”
Harold Macmillan
“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.”
Arthur Bryant
“If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you.”
Morris Hite
“We started a thing called the Global Developmental Alliance -- Secretary [of State Colin] Powell announced it in 2001, ... and we now have 200 alliances between AID [Agency for International Development], foundations in the U.S. and nontraditional corporate donors who want to give their corporate money.”
Andrew Natsios
“We have sent a letter to the UN secretary general requesting him to make available the documents and other related papers based on which the Volcker Committee named Congress in its report.”
Ambika Soni
“In the course of April 2006, the Secretary-General is likely to propose a broader strategy.”
Alex P. Schmid
