A Quote by Dan Donovan

I was Guy Molinari's chief of staff. — © Dan Donovan
I was Guy Molinari's chief of staff.
If Reince Priebus is, in fact, the chief of staff and operating as chief of staff, he is the most important staffer the president Donald Trump has. And it is not unusual for a president to set up some competing power centers, as Ronald Reagan did, but there`s nothing like being the chief of staff, which has so much say over what the president reads, who the president sees, who`s the last person the president talks to before he makes a decision.
I got to meet one Chief of Staff: Sam Skinner. He was Chief of Staff at the end of George Sr.'s White House.
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.
Serving as Chief of Staff would be an incredible honor.
A chief of staff has to reflect the president's governing style.
My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.
The chief of staff has to reflect and sometimes complement the strengths of the president he serves.
What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.
If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
Best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team.
The thing I enjoy the most about being the head coach is that I get to create the climate. I get to control the environment everybody comes to work in every day, and I'm very in tune to the chemistry, the morale of my staff, my support staff, my secretaries, the guy cleaning the building, the players, the walk-ons.
When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.
Some staff doesn't work well under pressure. So I make sure that my staff is very comfortable. I've got a bad reputation for being quite callous when it comes to culling staff. They are selected personally by me. I socialize with all my staff and they know me well and I consider them friends and we travel overseas together.
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