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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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.

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

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.

I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

Give a member of Congress a junket and a mimeograph machine and he thinks he is secretary of state.

Being a secretary was considered a very good job in those days.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.