Lloyd Cutler Quotes

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

I don't know if my agent will be upset but I quoted him saying that he would jump out a window if I turn down another project.

I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective 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.

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.

I believe the combination of Travelex and Apax will represent a powerful force.

I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section.

I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.

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

... the world's largest merger.

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

There's no question, I think, as more and more people get to know Rex Tillerson, they're going to be really proud of the choice that Donald Trump made as our next secretary of state.

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

Hard as it is to believe, there were three magazines fighting over me. 'Newsweek' wanted to keep me, 'ESPN The Magazine' was coming into existence and wanted me, and 'SI' wanted to bring me back. Isn't that amazing? I had a choice, like a free agent.

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

As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.

The complexity increases exponentially when you try and combine two companies that both need to be restructured in their own right.

If I'd done 'Top Gear,' I would have had to have left my job, and I've got the best job in the world. To do 'Top Gear' and do it properly would mean leaving work, and I can't. I don't want to leave work.

I would not have imagined being asked to be Secretary of State, it was a great honor to serve with President Obama in his cabinet.

I've been asked several times over the years to become president, and I've always said no, because I didn't want to give up all the time from my work. The position won't be open for another year, but if they still want me then, I'll do it; I'll speak out as often as I can from that platform.

As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!"

Getting countries working together was my job every day as your secretary of state.

People didn't think that a woman could be the Secretary of State, when my name was out there...but then the Arab Ambassadors at the UN said 'We have no problem dealing with Ambassador Albright, and we would have no problem dealing with Secretary Albright.'

Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have.