Confirmation Quote by Susan Page

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

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

There is no human-resources training for how to respond when you work for an unpredictable president. It's perhaps fitting that when you visit the…

— John Dickerson

The Obama administration has now taken exactly the same position as the Bush administration. I don't see how you can keep people from knowing…

— Anne Weismann

The President is aware of what is going on. That is not to say that something is going on.

— Ron Ziegler

I mean, Trump's Oval Office is like Grand Central Station. People try briefing him and someone comes in and interrupts him. People just sort…

— Maggie Haberman

If Reince Priebus is, in fact, the chief of staff and operating as chief of staff, he is the most important staffer the president…

— Susan Page

We'll keep guessing at what it might be that he's hiding. But I think the question is, were Donald Trump ever to get near…

— Hillary Clinton

“Bannon, who styled himself as a kind of black hole of silence, had also become a sort of official black-hole voice, everybody’s Deep Throat.…

— Michael Wolff

A president is always cosseted by his staff.

— Monica Crowley

Donald Trump is speaking on behalf of the White House, of the executive branch of the United States. Credibility matters.

— Jonathan Karl

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