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Quotes About Staff

Kelly seemed to be just trying to keep the ship from sinking. At a senior staff meeting in early 2018, he announced with pride, "I now know that I will not be the shortest-serving chief of staff. I've now surpassed Reince." Priebus had served 189 days, the shortest tenure of any White House chief of staff in history.
~ Bob Woodward
Don't take any questions, all the staff told him with urgency. Trump said he did not plan on taking any. At the press briefing, he took questions
~ Bob Woodward
Members of his staff had joined to purposefully block some of what they believed were the president's most dangerous impulses. It was a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.
~ Bob Woodward
Trump rejected the better judgment of almost all of his staff. He had done that before. His perverse independence and irrationality ebbed and flowed.
~ Bob Woodward
Porter saw it from up close—perhaps as close as anyone on the staff except Hope Hicks—the Trump election had rekindled the divide in the country. There was a more hostile relationship with the media. The culture wars were reinvigorated. There was a racist tinge. Trump accelerated it.
~ Bob Woodward
Later, when Trump brought up the second speech to him, the staff secretary said, "I thought the second speech was the only good one of the three." "I don't want to talk to you," Trump responded. "Get away from me.
~ Bob Woodward
The system was designed to reduce the randomness of voter contact, to make sure the volunteers and field staff concentrated their efforts on those most likely to vote for Trump.
~ Bob Woodward
Once at Haldeman's 7:45 a.m. senior staff meeting, Moynihan grew so frustrated at the wandering discussion that he raised his clenched fist, brought it down hard on the table, and shouted, "Fuck!" There was immediate silence. Butterfield watched everyone turn to Rose Woods, the only woman at the meeting, in horror and embarrassment.
~ Bob Woodward
Beneath her calm exterior she wished fiercely that she could pound the meanness out of Joren. Even as she thought it, she knew she would do better to ignore him. Water, she thought, collecting her staff from the shed where it was kept. I am a summer lake on a windless day, clear, cool, and still. Joren is a cloud. All he can do is cast a shadow on my surface. I'll be here long after he's gone.
~ Tamora Pierce
No duelling. No summoning of imps or other manifestations of elements potentially damaging to the records, including but not limited to: elementals, imps, sprites, ifrits, goblins, vile maidens, elohim, and major, minor and inferior spawn. No praying. No cursing, except by staff. The library is closed on public holidays. Donations welcome." -Demonia Library
~ Justina Robson
Over the next three years, Pinchot turned the Division of Forestry into a Bureau of Forestry with a much larger budget and staff. Many of his closest associates in government had been fellow students at Yale—indeed, fellow members of Skull and Bones.
~ Francis Fukuyama
employees—cooks, maids, amahs, tailors, drivers, accountants, managers, and advisers. A few had their
~ Helen Zia
The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.
~ Adlai Stevenson II
When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place.
~ Tina Brown
Most of the meetings I get are in London, and in terms of travelling, I was getting so used to the Virgin train, I knew most of the staff by name.
~ Greg McHugh
Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your people. Sustainability starts with your staff.
~ Tom Douglas
I will stay in Impact as long as the fans want me there. They were so happy to have me there and treated me with a lot of respect. The office, talent, and staff are treated with respect by everyone, regardless of your position in the business.
~ Alberto Del Rio
To me, the greatest asset of the Fed is the people. We have a tremendously dedicated staff... They feel proud to work for the Fed because this is such a competent, professional and well-respected organization.
~ Janet Yellen
The best junior officers with at least three years' service could apply for a "high potentials" course which would lead to entry into the General Staff.
~ Stephen Bungay
The president's chief of staff, Al Grantham, blew up. By reputation, he was one of the most aggressive leftists on the president's staff, and, although he was white, was of the opinion that white America would have to be conquered. He thought most whites were racists and Nazis.
~ Stephen Coonts
Dr Danson made a series of claims about violent assaults on three prisoners by staff at Barlinnie. Three prison officers subsequently appeared in court charged with assaulting inmates.
~ Stephen Richards
I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted—or blessed—with something of his own obsequious suavity.
~ Bram Stoker
human resources are the most valuable assets that the company has.
~ Brian Tracy
Stranahan hadn't wanted to give up his job, but it had been discreetly explained that for political reasons the state attorney could not keep on staff an investigator (even a productive one) who had killed a duly elected judge (even a crooked one). So Stranahan had accepted the ludicrous buyout and purchased himself an old wooden stilt house in Biscayne Bay, where he had lived mostly unmolested for years until Hurricane Andrew smashed the place to splinters.
~ Carl Hiaasen