Best Quote by Robert C. O'Brien

The 'Scowcroft Model' recognizes - and embraces - the unique but necessarily modest place the National Security Council and the national security adviser occupy…

— 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

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

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

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

The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never…

— Seymour Hersh

When we come into the NSC, everybody has different opinions. At the end of the day, we present the president with all the facts.…

— Nikki Haley

While the statutory members of the NSC, in some cases, run departments that execute foreign policy, the NSC staff at the White House was…

— Robert C. O'Brien

[Adviser is] the ones who do the job very well are the ones who lay out the range of options, filter down the range…

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

— Leon Panetta

“adviser, repeatedly requested that the NSA spy on the internal discussions of key member states to learn their negotiation strategies. A May 2010 SSO report”

— Glenn Greenwald

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