Adviser Quotes - Page 6

• You want the president to be uninfluenced by any factors other than his advisers and the best interests of the United States. I think, on that category, Donald Trump easily beats Hillary Clinton.

  Kris Kobach

  Thinking, President, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Donald] Trump`s incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, spoke on the phone with Russia`s ambassador the same day President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and imposed new sanctions on Russia.

  Donald Trump

  Russia, Phones, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A top McCain policy adviser claimed this week that McCain's work in the Senate helped create the BlackBerry, saying, 'You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create.' He then handed the BlackBerry to McCain, who attempted to withdraw $20 from it.

  Amy Poehler

  Miracle, Week, Policy

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• I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, - "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.'

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Church, Devil

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.43, 谷月社

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• You can imagine what the advisers are telling Junior Assad: "Your statues are much stronger than Saddam's. His were hollow, and bolted in place with inferior metal; yours are solid, and are anchored to a depth of three feet. Let the American tanks come! Their gears will strip and their engines whine in defeat as they attempt to pull down your statues!

  James Lileks

  Feet, Stronger, Tanks

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• Inside the White House there were always extreme amounts of doubt about whether they should be escalating in Afghanistan. In fact, most of the president's advisers said, "This is probably not going to work." A lot of people in the military said, "This is probably not going to work."

  Michael Hastings

  Military, White, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Politico reports, multiple advisers to the Right To Rise super Pac concede privately that the $40 million spent on positive ads aimed at telling Bush`s story yielded no tangible dividends.

  Chris Hayes

  Stories, Tangible, Pacs

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never balanced. It was always tilted toward Rumsfeld's position, which is obviously the same as Bush's.

  Seymour Hersh

  Fields, Open Minded, Debate

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I think that it depends what you mean by successful. If you mean 'make money' you need to be part of the machine unless you're one of those superhuman people who can do everything by yourself, and have workaholic tendencies and really good advisers and a good investor.

  Sia Furler

  Mean, Successful, Thinking

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• The industry financial advisers, on average about 85% male, tends to be a more mature financial adviser - so I think in their 50s, really. For so many companies, in their 60s. In fact, there is one company that was telling me they had more financial advisers over the age of 80 than under the age of 30.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Thinking, Average, Males

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• Typically, when you ask a financial adviser sitting with a couple: Do you treat the man and woman differently? They say, "No!"

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Couple, Men, Sitting

  "Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest and the Gender Investing Gap". Interview with Denver Frederick, www.denver-frederick.com. August 18, 2016.

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• With a normal president like President [Barack] Obama, he says a word, and that's because there has been some thought that he's done and there had been policy papers and there's been aides and there's been advisers and then there is a connection to an actual set of policies. And so, the words like have roots into actual stuff.

  David Brooks

  Roots, President, Normal

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.

  Leon Panetta

  Thinking, Quality, Procedures

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Michael Flynn, national security adviser, [his reaction] to the Iranian missile test the other day was very frightening. Now the missile test is ill-advised, they shouldn't have done it. But it's not in violation of international law or international agreements. They shouldn't have done it. His reaction suggested maybe we're going to go to war in retaliation.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Agreement, Law

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Facts are that the financial advisers on Wall Street today or anywhere depending on which firm, what point in time - 85 to 88 percent male, and that is part of why investing for women they tell us feels unapproachable because they don't see people who look like them.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Wall, People, Males

  "Venus Williams And Sallie Krawcheck Want Women To Invest". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 18, 2016.

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• Was that Donna Brazile, a CNN analyst, or a [Hillary] Clinton partisan? Two batches of emails posted by WikiLeaks show Brazile gave Clinton advisers a heads up about questions the candidate might receive at CNN events during the primaries.

  Donna Brazile

  Two, Cnn, Email

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

  Mark Leyner

  Dope, Opinion, Wanted

  Mark Leyner (2011). “The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel”, p.19, Vintage

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• Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

  Neil Gaiman

  Teacher, Growing Up, Book

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• I dont think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popular support that the war can be won out there. In the final analysis, it is their war. They are the ones who have to win it or lose it. We can help them, we can give them equipment, we can send our men out there as advisers, but they have to win it, the people of Viet-Nam, against the Communists.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Winning, Men

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• I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

  William Banting

  Pain, Cases, Interest

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13

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• Hitler had an unprecedented opportunity, such as no man will ever again be offered so easily, to create something entirely new. However, besides the fact that he knows absolutely nothing about matters economic, he cannot even fully understand his economic advisers. . . . His constant worry has ever been to keep himself in power. . . . He believes that he alone is a great man, and all others non-entities.

  Fritz Thyssen

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

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• Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

  William Blum

  Compassion, People, Empathy

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• Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?

  Kanye West

  Party, Rome, Years

  "Kanye West’s Zane Lowe Interview Can Only Be Described As Amazing" by Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2013.

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• Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

  David Kay

  President, Ambitious, Action

  "David Kay Testifies Before Senate Committee". Cnn Live Event/Special, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2004.

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• I'd rather be an adviser. I don't wanna become a trainer because I think with the knowledge and the business sense that I've accomplished through my career and have credibility, why would I reduce myself down to being in a gym with a bunch of training which is not a bad thing to give advice, but I can do that with a suit and tie on and also be there when the cheques are written. I don't wanna be there when the cheques are handed down from 3 or 4 people's hands and then it hits mine as a trainer because 9/10 times, deductions have come out of that.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Thinking, Hands

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