Political Appointee Quotes

PUBLIC SERVANT: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

Carrie Lam is a proxy leader.The final decision-maker is President Xi.

POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles, he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.

I think what we ought to be focusing on is that we are on path for the release of 75,000 pages of documents in connection with John Roberts' work in the White House, as in the counselor's office and as his time working as an assistant in the office of the attorney general.

It’s a political process to get to be a United States Attorney but after that, politicians have to adopt a hands off approach to the U. S. Attorneys.

A crony is a presidential advisor you don't like.

Bannon should never have had a permanent seat on the NSC, as he is a political operative, and the NSC has traditionally been a place where American interests are considered rather than narrow Republican or Democratic interests.

William Barr has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate four times, has served two U.S. presidents, and has proven himself to be a consummate professional who deeply respects the great responsibilities and boundaries of the office of the attorney general.

My role is not to be the President’s friend….When I am no longer the Chief of Staff, I expect to be the President’s friend.

Homeland security is a problem. It's a good idea, but it's a problem because the man who runs it is Tom Ridge, and he is someone who has the leadership qualities of a gerbil.

But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive.

I'm nothing. I'm zip. I'm not a government employee. I can't even get a government rate from airlines. I'm a volunteer in the office of the President.

I am not bound by instructions from the State Department. I am a member of the President's cabinet and take instructions only from him.

I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.

There's a difference, though, between being a political appointee and putting a political operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office.

I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years.

I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Executive Office Building. I didn't rate one in the West Wing; but don't try to tell me or any of the rest of us working there that we weren't working in the White House.

I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee.

You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.

The UPA awarded Brijesh Mishra with the second highest award of the country after Bharat Ratna. I am suggesting that he was a Congress bug, a cat's paw. He was Congress' Trojan Horse. Even as he was the NSA, he worked for the Congress party.

I worked in the Clinton administration.

Sometimes the agency head is picked because he or she is thought to be an expert on the subject, but many times the President has no real idea of the content or policy implications of this expertise.