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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.”

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“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.”

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Author:Colin Powell

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

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Author:Condoleezza Rice

“President Barack Obama benefits from the shared experience and wisdom of top national security and foreign policy advisers, many of them career professionals.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“My financial adviser Ric Edelman...thinks the time to start educating people about money is when they are children. He's set up a retirement plan called the RIC-E-Trust that can provide retirement security. A $5,000 one-time tax-deferred investment at birth, with an average interest rate of ten percent compounded, means that a child would have $2.4 million when he or she is 65 years old. Who needs Social Security with that kind of nest egg?”

“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.”

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Author:Seymour Hersh

“Steve Hadley, that's an outlier, for sure. But he's very experienced. He may be national security adviser, but think that would be a hard choice for Mr. [Donald] Trump to make because General [Mike] Flynn he's very comfortable with.”

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Author:George Stephanopoulos

“I think General [Mike] Flynn is probably the top contender for that job [of national security adviser].”

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Author:George Stephanopoulos

“I`m just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.”

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Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“National security adviser is not a position that requires confirmation. This is a pick that like [Donald Trump] Chief of Staff, he gets to choose on his own and have installed.”

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Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“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.”

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Author:Kristen Welker

“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.”

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Author:Paula Broadwell

“How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

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Author:Katrina vanden Heuvel

“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.”

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Author:Leon Panetta

“I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.”

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Author:Leon Panetta

“Michael Flynn, national security adviser, [his reaction] to the Iranian missile test the other day was very frightening. Now the missile test is ill-advised, they shouldn't have done it. But it's not in violation of international law or international agreements. They shouldn't have done it. His reaction suggested maybe we're going to go to war in retaliation.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“I am deeply worried about Donald Trump on matters of national security. He doesn't know anything himself about it, and he has appointed a national security adviser, Mike Flynn, who is a pro-Russia conspiracy theorist, and he's just put Steve Bannon, a guy with connections to white supremacy and antisemitism, onto the National Security Council.”

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Author:Tim Kaine