“By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.” SufferingPresidentFoolPoliticianStriveDefensePresident ObamaSecretaryChuckAloofNominating Author:Ron Fournier
“In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.” YearsStatesFoundStarsPresidentRoomsTroubleRocksGrewGrew UpVicesSentencesDefenseSecretaryRock StarVice PresidentCompleting Author:Joe Scarborough
“The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.” MenPersonsMadeReasonLawIndividualNationsPresidentPrinciplesHe ManKingsMoonAuthoritySlaveryMythIndividualismRepresentativesSecretarySenatorsSovereigntyTreatiesAmbassadorsValidityIndividual RightsMan In The Moon Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner
“Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House.” IfsWantShouldStatesOrderCoursesHousePresidentWhiteReturnVicesChecksGentlemanWhite HouseSecretaryTransfersVice PresidentHelmPending Author:Alexander Haig
“It's just like we do over here in America, right? It's amazing that we have presidents over here do the same thing, right? It's amazing that Bill Clinton could do one thing and have sex with his secretary and really get away with it and still be powerful.” StillsAmericaPoliticsSexPresidentPowerfulOne ThingBillsClintonGet AwaySecretaryNorth Korea Author:Dennis Rodman
“As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.” FirstsTogetherSocialPresidentEventsResponsibleHostSecretaryFirst Lady Author:Desiree Rogers
“When the [US] president writes to Kim Jong Il, the son, the Dear Leader, he doesn't call him Dear Mr President, he calls him Dear Mr Secretary. Have you ever noticed that? Why is that? Because he's not the president of North Korea, he's the head of the Communist Party, the North Korean Workers' Party and he's the head of the Army. He's not head of the state. The head of the state is his father, who's been dead for 15 years.” WritingYearsStatesFatherPresidentPartyLeaderSonArmyWorkersDearCommunistSecretaryKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanKimCommunist PartyUs PresidentNorth Korean Author:Christopher Hitchens
“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.” WorldWantI CanStatesCareCoursesPresidentWifeWorstMy WifeGreat ThingsMessSecretary Author:William J. Clinton
“No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.” Has BeensSaidMatterCharacterHandsMightTodayAbleCoursesStrongPresidentHurtWrittenStrengthGreatnessInspireElementsCriticismFirmTallDisplayUnfairSecretaryHarshStrength Of CharacterDeeply Hurt Author:Richard M. Nixon
“The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.” ImportantStatesUnderstandingPresidentAspectSecretary Author:Dean Acheson
“You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside the White House, as you learned, sometimes with painful experience, have competing agendas, have differing points of view, have priorities they're trying to protect.” PeopleTryingSometimesHousePresidentInterestWhiteViewsProtectPressesPainfulPoint Of ViewPrioritiesAgendasWhite HouseSecretaryCompetingPainful Experiences Author:Dee Dee Myers
“There's no question almost press secretaries talk about the sense of serving two masters. On the one hand you want to protect the president's interests, and you represent his interests to the press. And the press is a proxy for the American people.” PeopleWantTwoHandsPresidentInterestMastersProtectPressesServingSecretaryProxyTwo Masters Author:Dee Dee Myers
“President Bush cruelly manipulated the grief of the American people - and the sympathy of the rest of the world - to introduce a 'world order' dreamed up by a clutch of fantasists advising the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld.” PeopleWorldOrderPresidentGriefIntroducingSecretaryPresident BushDefenceWorld OrderClutch Author:Robert Fisk
“We appreciate the efforts of the United States, of the president, of the secretary of state, and we are ready to find any form of talks, but we have to overcome the differences between Syria and Israel to reach peace.” StatesFormPresidentDifferencesUnitedEffortUnited StatesReadyAppreciateOvercomingIsraelSecretarySyria Author:Yitzhak Rabin