Chief Of Staff Quotes:

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

- Aleister Crowley

topic: Believe, Devil, Ordinary, Chief Of Staff

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

- Jack Higgins

topic: Ira, Looks, Staff, Chief Of Staff

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.

- Mack McLarty

source: "Panetta and Petraeus" by Jon Michaud, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

topic: Italian, White, Political, White House, Chief Of Staff

Remember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the attack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man suddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated.

- Howard Fineman

topic: Men, People, Challenges, Chief Of Staff

The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

- Fred Barnes

topic: Giving Up, Winning, Media, Mainstream Media, Deputies

How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: time.com

topic: White, House, Decision, Decision Makers, Chief Of Staff

Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.

- Donald Rumsfeld

topic: People, Doubt, President, Chief Of Staff

When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies get $150 million at the end of the campaign for the 'fantastic' get-out-the-vote program... some of this borders on RICO violations.

- Patrick Caddell

topic: Two, Political, Directors, Chief Of Staff

We will build an active army of around 540,000, as the Army's chief of staff has said he needs desperately and really must have to protect our country.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Country, Army, Needs, Chief Of Staff

I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people.

- Robin Williams

topic: Years, Iraq, People, Chief Of Staff, Bahrain

Your American admiral said that he held me in the highest esteem, and thought that I conducted my defense perfectly. He said through his chief of staff that my conduct was beyond reproach and he had the greatest admiration for me.

- Karl Donitz

source: Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

topic: Defense, Admiration, Staff, Chief Of Staff

I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Team, Attachment, Interesting, Chief Of Staff

Able Danger was a top-secret military planning operation, established in '99 by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to identify cells of al-Qaida worldwide and to take out al Qaida terrorists. They identified five cells worldwide, one of them in Brooklyn.

- Curt Weldon

topic: Military, Cells, Secret, Top Secret, Chief Of Staff

I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.

- Scott McClellan

topic: President, Information, Administration, Chief Of Staff

For people who dont know me, I practiced medicine in Casper, Wyoming for 25 years as an orthopedic surgeon, taking care of families in Wyoming. Ive been chief of staff of the largest hospital in our state. My wife is a breast cancer survivor.

- John Barrasso

topic: Cancer, Years, Medicine, Casper, Chief Of Staff

President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values.

- Julianne Malveaux

source: Source: www.theskanner.com

topic: Police Violence, People, Choices, Emmanuel, Chief Of Staff

National security adviser is not a position that requires confirmation. This is a pick that like [Donald Trump] Chief of Staff, he gets to choose on his own and have installed.

- Lawrence O'Donnell

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Confirmation, Staff, Trump, Chief Of Staff

National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they`re - if they`re competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.

- Lawrence O'Donnell

topic: Jobs, White, House, Chief Of Staff

Malcolm X broke with the N.O.I. in March 1964, and in that last 11 chaotic months, he spent most of the time outside of the United States. Nevertheless, he built two organizations in the spring of 1964. First, Muslim Mosque Incorporated, which was a religious organization that was largely based on members of the N.O.I. who left with him. It was spearheaded by James 67X or James Shabazz, who was his chief of staff. Then secondly was the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

- Manning Marable

source: Source: historynewsnetwork.org

topic: Religious, Spring, Organization, Chief Of Staff, Afros

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

- Patrick Stewart

topic: Bridges, Two, Different, Chief Of Staff

The Bush Administration, and particularly Bush's chief political strategist and Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove, have been expert in both galvanizing and mobilizing the fears and resentments of people. A good part of their politics consists of being against others who are defined in stereotypical terms. These others don't, in actual reality, exist. The so-called Democratic elitists, for example, are a stereotype who they can hate. Anyone who watches Fox News or listens to Rush Limbaugh knows that this hatred of the other is at the core of their politics.

- Sidney Blumenthal

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Hate, Reality, People, Deputies, Chief Of Staff

When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew more about the subject we were discussing than I did. I had to make sure that they felt confident enough to tell me everything they believed.

- Colin Powell

source: Source: www.egonzehnder.com

topic: People, Juniors, Joints, Chairman, Chief Of Staff

Congressional leaders on the Republican side are hoping chief of staff is [Reince] Priebus. They see Priebus as somebody who they can clearly work with.

- George Stephanopoulos

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Leader, Sides, Republican, Chief Of Staff

The next big decision [of Donald Trump], chief of staff. And the two names talked about the most, Steve Bannon, Reince Priebus. Both allies, but they send quite a different message.

- George Stephanopoulos

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Names, Two, Decision, Big Decisions, Chief Of Staff

We're working very closely with the RNC, hand in glove. I talked to Reince Priebus several times a day. Sean Spicer is here today. Katie Walsh is here often, the chief of staff there. We have a great - that is the party, and we have a great relationship with the party.

- Kellyanne Conway

topic: Party, Hands, Today, Sean, Chief Of Staff

[Barack] Obama's out there saying it's the number one national security threat [climate change], and he's got his Joint Chiefs of Staff out there planning American battles, military engagements on that basis.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Military, Numbers, Battle, Chief Of Staff

Remember chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's callous enjoinder 'you never want a serious crisis to go to waste'? This White House is a serious crisis.

- Bob Tyrrell

topic: White, House, Want, Chief Of Staff, Callous

One of my first directives, after taking office, will be asking the Joint Chiefs of Staff and all relevant federal departments to conduct a thorough review of United States cyber defenses and identify all vulnerabilities - and we have to do that immediately - including to our power grid, our communications system, and all vital infrastructure.

- Donald Trump

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Communication, Office, Joints, Chief Of Staff, Cyber

I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations.

- Helen Thomas

topic: Morning, Volcanoes, President, Burned Out, Morning After

Hillary Clinton's opponent in the U.S. Senate race, the Republican she's going to be running against, has been married three times, had an affair with his chief of staff, had two kids with her while still married to his second wife. This is the first time in history that a Clinton is the 'family values' candidate.

- Jay Leno

topic: Running, Kids, Two, Chief Of Staff

Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

topic: Lasts, Staff, Pentagon, Kremlin, Chief Of Staff

I got to be White House chief of staff, ten years of congressman, secretary of defense, vice-president. If you're a political junkie like I obviously am - that was - every one of those was just a tremendous experience. I'm very comfortable with what I did and why I did it and how I did it. And I'll let others judge whether they liked it or not.

- Dick Cheney

topic: Years, White, Judging, Chief Of Staff