Sean Spicer Quotes

President Bush has had an outstanding Secretary of State in Colin Powell and there are not many people who could replace him, making Condoleezza Rice an excellent choice.

Personally, I think Mitt Romney would be a great secretary of state.

I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

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.

If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state.

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Secretary Tillerson is not going anywhere. I can vouch for that. He is where he is, he continues to be strong in how he handles foreign policy, and I continue to work well with him.

I think I will serve as secretary of state as my last public position.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

I think Donald Trump knows the kind of leadership that we [Americans] need at home and abroad.

Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.

, I'm going to reserve judgment on [Rex] Tillerson. But I'll ask him the same question I've asked the others: do you understand the historic lesson that the Iraq war was a failure, a strategic mistake, that's what Donald Trump says.

Two months ago Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight. Just two months ago he said that Hillary Clinton would be a great negotiator with Iran. And he gets his foreign policy experience from the shows.

Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

I shall have to depend upon you for taking care of these matters of foreign affairs, of which I know so little, and with which I reckon you are familiar.

Condelesa Rice waves. She gets off airplanes and waves. She gets the 45 degree angle shot with a foreign dignatory and waves, but she doesn’t make deals. The whole world wants to make deals but she doesn’t make deals. She waves.

You'd make a great Secretary of State because State Department personnel don't answer questions completely either.

You see before you the former future Secretary of State.

Beyond going around doing things as Secretary of State, you have to recognize that you had managerial responsibilities.

We need to plus-up the budget of the State Department, increase the amount of aid we give, and help the world through this difficult moment. That is the price of leadership.

I talk a great deal to prior Secretaries of State about policy issues.

There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time.