Adviser Quote by Seymour Hersh

National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They're not there to be partisans, they're not there to be ideologues.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

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

While some national security advisers have eschewed the Scowcroft Model and sought to 'operationalize' the NSC or pursue their own policy agendas without regard…

— Robert C. O'Brien

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

No adviser to a president is going to get his way all of the time, but at a minimum, that adviser should be able…

— Bret Stephens

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

Especially when it comes to national security, there is a premium on an administration speaking clearly, consistently and precisely, starting with the president.

— Antony Blinken

The American national security state is totally bipartisan. My biggest problem is with the Democrats, like Feinstein and Pelosi, who are defending it because…

— Glenn Greenwald

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

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

Don Rumsfeld is the finest secretary of defense the nation has ever had.

— Dick Cheney

I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

— Barry McCaffrey