Support System Quote by Garrett M. Graff

“According to James Mann's Rise of the Vulcans, once a year in the 1980s, the Reagan administration flew Cheney to a secret bunker to…

— Charlie Savage

“There would be, in other words, one chief of staff in name—the unimportant one—and various others, more important, in practice, ensuring both chaos and…

— Michael Wolff

Right after Secretary [Rex] Tillerson was sworn in, four of the top career diplomats at the department were told their services were no longer…

— Rachel Maddow

“One of the imponderables in our system of government is how rapidly and easily secretaries of state, defense, and treasury, high-ranking military officers, congressmen,…

— Ted Koppel

These are career non-partisan apolitical staffers with a combined 150 years of experience at the State Department gone, just like that right off the…

— Rachel Maddow

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been…

— Jim Garrison

I think General [Mike] Flynn is probably the top contender for that job [of national security adviser].

— George Stephanopoulos

“Jimmy Carter is not the President of the United States. The Trilateral Commission is the President of the United States; I represent the Trilateral…

— Henry Ass-Kissinger

When I was a CIA officer we would have meetings and you don't know what people's politics are... We were there to serve a…

— Abigail Spanberger

When it comes to the effective stewardship of our nation's security - especially during crises - the most successful administrations had three things in…

— Antony Blinken

“Jim Baker, chief of staff for both Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush and almost everybody’s model for managing the West Wing, advised…

— Michael Wolff

“manage the community outside of the CIA. An official observed, “The CIA director managed the CIA; it was the best job in the world.…

— Michael Allen