Come Quote by Robert C. O'Brien

One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth…

— Leon Panetta

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

As the briefer, my job is to carry CIA's best information and best analysis to the president of the United States and make sure…

— Michael Morell

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

I've got five years of experience as a national security staffer in the U.S. Congress.

— Jon Ossoff

My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.

— Condoleezza Rice

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

— Leon Panetta

As Director of National Intelligence, I am entrusted with access to more intelligence than any member of the U.S. government other than the president.…

— John Ratcliffe

My job is to advise politicians, elected officials, and government ministries of the best way to deal with important issues, both localized, national, and…

— Mark Walport

That's the job of the National Security Council is to try to be a disciplined clearinghouse, gathering the views from across multiple agencies, teeing…

— Greg Miller

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

— John W. Vessey, Jr

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