Adviser Quote by Leon Panetta

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

— Leon Panetta

My job as the national security adviser is to distill and present to the president the views and options that come from the various…

— Robert C. O'Brien

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…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

National security adviser is not a position that requires confirmation. This is a pick that like [Donald Trump] Chief of Staff, he gets to…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

The National Security Council assists the president by ensuring that he receives the best views and options from the various departments and agencies on…

— Robert C. O'Brien

How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the…

— Barack Obama

President's personal staff has a unique role. They're his intimate personal advisers, and the tradition and the precedent has been, even when I was…

— Colin Powell

The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.

— Chris Christie

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place…

— Mitch McConnell

The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander in chief.

— Tim Kaine

Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.

— Malcolm Turnbull

The president has to have the trust, earn the trust, maintain the trust of people in order to lead. And there's nothing that will…

— Mark Shields