Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.
Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.
I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.
I had a passion to not be a secretary forever. I was mindful of the customary career trajectory, and I knew I had to do something remarkable.
(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
Being home secretary involves having to face some of the worst of human behaviour and challenges of modern society.
Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.