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To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial. -- John Heilemann
I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force. -- Frank Carlucci
The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never balanced. It was always tilted toward Rumsfeld's position, which is obviously the same as Bush's. -- Seymour Hersh
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. -- Albert Einstein
For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff. -- Mary Quant
I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer. -- Edward Snowden
My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people. -- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth. -- Felix Dennis
The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed. -- Jeffrey Chiesa
Massachusetts has prohibited most financial advisers from using titles like 'certified senior adviser,' and some of the largest insurers, including MetLife and Genworth Financial, have similar rules. -- Charles Duhigg
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. -- Thomas Sowell
Nixon did not anticipate the extent to which Kissinger, whom he barely knew when he appointed him national-security adviser in 1969, would be envious and high-strung - a maintenance project of the first order. -- Robert Dallek
I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film. -- John Schlesinger
I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party. -- Hans Frank
The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA, the Pentagon, or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice. -- Robert Dallek
Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16,000. -- Kitty Kelley
I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers. -- Lee Iacocca
Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed. -- Geoff Mulgan
Callista Gingrich has, I suspect, given Newt's advisers a giant headache. She's a constant presence at her husband's side - and a constant reminder of his acknowledged infidelity. Newt cheated on his second wife with Callista, a woman 23 years his junior. -- Patti Davis
The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar. -- Robert Fisk
As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely prelude to complete withdrawal from the conflict. There is solid evidence of his eagerness to end America's military role in that country's civil war. -- Robert Dallek
Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue. -- Alexei Navalny
No one is better placed or more philosophically suited than Obama to construct the new counter narrative as we go forward in our new New Deal. But many masters of the old universe, including quite possibly his chief economic adviser, can't recognize that the world has changed or should change. -- Frank Rich
I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels. -- William Hague
You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors. -- Steven Seagal
There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do. -- Oliver North
Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money - that affected everything, from child support, mortgages, to me having to sell my properties, me being in and out of court trying to modify my child support. It's a lot to deal with at one time. -- Terrell Owens
There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies. -- Hanna Rosin
Be an example, not an adviser. -- Debasish Mridha
She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration. -- Whitney Houston
I work on instinct. It's my best adviser. -- Princess Diana
Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser. -- Aulus Persius Flaccus
Disagrees with neocon adviser on immediate need to bomb Iran. -- Rudy Giuliani
If a king's adviser is wiser than him, let him be the king! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Steve Bannon, too, needs to be a unifier, doesn't he, as the senior adviser. -- Megyn Kelly
A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser. -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser. -- Benjamin Graham
The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice. -- Nina Fedoroff
I think General [Mike] Flynn is probably the top contender for that job [of national security adviser]. -- George Stephanopoulos
Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures. -- Leon Panetta
I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser. -- Lisa Caputo
Typically, when you ask a financial adviser sitting with a couple: Do you treat the man and woman differently? They say, "No!" -- Sallie Krawcheck
Yo! You're my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I'd have asked for it, Motherfucker! -- Mark Leyner
Yo! You're my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I'd have asked for it, Motherfucker!" -- Mark Leyner
Dan Pfeiffer for me probably the most concerning at all because he is the [President Barack Obama] strategic communications adviser. What's the strategy ? -- Eric Bolling
My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much. -- Mindy Kaling
The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery. -- Michael Crichton
I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser. -- Paula Broadwell
I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging. -- John Carmack
We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories. -- Robert Orben
Asking for advice is an act of humility.... The act alone says, "I need you." The decision maker and the adviser are pushed into a closer relationship. -- Dennis Bakke
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there. -- Al Michaels
I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters. -- Hamilton Jordan
One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty. -- Leon Panetta
White House political adviser Karl Rove was one of Robert Novak's sources for the 2003 disclosure of a CIA operative's identity, according to a story published today in "Duh" magazine. -- Andy Borowitz
Before you place your financial future in the hands of an adviser, it's imperative that you find someone who not only makes you comfortable but whose honesty is beyond reproach. -- Benjamin Graham
I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now. -- Richard C. Armitage
I have an accountant, obviously, because I'm self employed, and I use an independent financial adviser. I trust my accountant because we have worked together for a long time now. -- Richard C. Armitage
Every adviser told me to study the company, learn the business for the first 90 days and don't make any decisions. I couldn't resist seeing broken things and immediately taking action. -- Marcelo Claure
The extraordinary thing that we saw here is the incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, basically having a text messages back and forth with the Russian ambassador to the United States. -- Katrina vanden Heuvel
Adam Schiff, who is of course the ranking member on the House Select Committee said earlier today I`d be worried about an impulsive president with an impulsive national security adviser. -- Kristen Welker
how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame. -- Carolyn Wells
[Donald] Trump`s incoming national security adviser, Michael Flynn, spoke on the phone with Russia`s ambassador the same day President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats and imposed new sanctions on Russia. -- Donald Trump
Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?' -- Jodi Kantor
At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream. -- Alexa Chung
A hiker who was lost in a blizzard said he stayed alive by digging a snow tunnel and burning dollar bills for warmth. Today he was offered a job as President Obama's economic adviser. -- Jay Leno
I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party. -- Hans Frank
There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs." -- Jeff Merkley

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