Appoint Quote by Richard V. Allen

The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make…

— Zachary Taylor

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

In the early days of the republic, the secretary of state was the heir apparent to the president. Presidents could easily hand-pick their party's…

— H. W. Brands

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

— Donald Rumsfeld

We need a president who will lead with a stronger, more consistent foreign policy. We also need our commander in chief to put more…

— Lee Zeldin

“...the leader should reserve to himself the hiring, compensating, motivating, molding, assessing and firing of his chief lieutenants.”

— Steven B. Sample

You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make…

— Barack Obama

Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty…

— Gary Bauer

“the single most important task in management is to pick good deputies,”

— Raghuram G. Rajan

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

— Donald Trump

”In a time of war, the president must have the power he needs to make the tough decisions, including, if need be, the decision…

— George W. Bush

The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative,…

— Jay Alan Sekulow