Adviser Quotes - Page 5

• My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

  William Banting

  Tailors, Medical, Proof

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Family, Dirty, Listening

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• One great remedy against all manner of temptation, great or small, is to open the heart and lay bare its suggestion, likings, and dislikings before some spiritual adviser; for, . . . the first condition which the Evil One makes with a soul, when he wants to entrap it, is silence.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Spiritual, Heart, Evil

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• 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 national security adviser, that people in that position do not testify before the Congress. They talk to the Congress. They have meetings with the Congress.

  Colin Powell

  Unique, People, President

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

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• it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Principles, Sitting, Congress

  "Rice Leads Counterattack". "60 minutes", www.cbsnews.com. March 28, 2004.

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• [A]t the beginning of November 2001, there was a series of meetings between White House advisers and senior Hollywood executives with the aim of co-ordinating the war effort and establishing how Hollywood could help in the "war against terrorism" by getting the right ideological message across not only to Americans, but also to the Hollywood public around the globe the ultimate empirical proof that Hollywood does in fact function as an "ideological state apparatus.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Senior, War, White

  Slavoj Žižek (2002). “Welcome to the Desert of the Real!: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates”, p.16, Verso

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• If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled.

  Benjamin Graham

  Mistake, Investing Money, Training

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• It is the lawyers who run our civilization for us -- our governments, our business, our private lives. Most legislators are lawyers; they make our laws. Most presidents, governors, commissioners, along with their advisers and brain-trusters are lawyers; they administer our laws. All the judges are lawyers; they interpret and enforce our laws. There is no separation of powers where the lawyers are concerned. There is only a concentration of all government power -- in the lawyers.

  Fred Rodell

  Running, Law, Civilization

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• Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?

  Paul Begala

  Payroll Tax, People, Want

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• I'm more like a senior adviser so I don't like to come in here and try to take over. Just like your basic karate movie where the young guys come to the old guys with beards who have them do weird stuff to get to the other side. That's who I am, the old guy with a long beard.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Senior, Who I Am

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• 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

  Mother

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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• As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.

  Scott McClellan

  Team, Texas, Iraq

  "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". Book by Scott McClellan, April 21, 2008.

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• To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Focus, Age, Approval

  Remarks by President Gerald R. Ford on Receiving the 2001 Profile in Courage Award, www.jfklibrary.org. May 21, 2001.

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• Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Country, Milton, Millions

  "The Private Man and the Public Life; Interview With Galbraith". The Washington Post, April 26, 1981.

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• Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of our foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man." Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Heart, Airplane

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• French troops arrived in Afghanistan last week, and not a minute too soon. The French are acting as advisers to the Taliban, to teach them how to surrender properly.

  Jay Leno

  Acting, Troops, Lasts

  "The Tonight Show", November 26, 2004.

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• There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed with doubt as to any course of action, they would turn aside from the immediate tumult of the world, and from the vain speaking of those who "darken counsel by words without knowledge;" and would then commune with their hearts alone, at night, the heavens their silent counsellors, they would act not always in accordance with the wise men of this world, but with that wisdom which bringeth peace.

  Arthur Helps

  Wise, Wisdom, Heart

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• Rick Perry, started out like a ball of fire from Texas and then he started to drop and now he's retooling. He's adding advisers to his campaign team. This guy had advisers? Really?

  David Letterman

  Team, Fire, Texas

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• 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

  Fields, Open Minded, Debate

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Facts are that the financial advisers on Wall Street today or anywhere depending on which firm, what point in time - 85 to 88 percent male, and that is part of why investing for women they tell us feels unapproachable because they don't see people who look like them.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Wall, People, Males

  "Venus Williams And Sallie Krawcheck Want Women To Invest". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 18, 2016.

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• Was that Donna Brazile, a CNN analyst, or a [Hillary] Clinton partisan? Two batches of emails posted by WikiLeaks show Brazile gave Clinton advisers a heads up about questions the candidate might receive at CNN events during the primaries.

  Donna Brazile

  Two, Cnn, Email

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

  Messages, United States, Ambassadors

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• [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

  Russia, Phones, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Different presidents are different as far as their public persona vs. their persona meeting with advisers. For example, George Bush was pretty much the same in person as when he was speaking publicly. I think Donald Trump has a stage persona and he also has a temperament when meeting with his advisers. Now, the positions are the same, but the attitude is a little bit different.

  Kris Kobach

  Attitude, Thinking, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You want the president to be uninfluenced by any factors other than his advisers and the best interests of the United States. I think, on that category, Donald Trump easily beats Hillary Clinton.

  Kris Kobach

  Thinking, President, United States

  Source: www.pbs.org

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