Government Protocol Quotes

A committee of the Senate ought to confer with a committee of the President through a head of a department and not with the Chief Magistrate, for in the latter case a committee of that House is equal to the President.

Anything my staff does in my office is pursuant to congressional rules.

The thing on cyber-security. Yes, it was - every government employee goes through this training. You do hear at corporations, as well. In addition, everybody that works at the State Department that has a clearance has to sign a document that says that they got a briefing on how to handle classified info. Hillary Clinton is the secretary of state. She makes a terrible, reckless decision, and it almost ruined her candidacy.

Mr. Roosevelt, when you are in Washington as long as I have been, you will learn that the President of the United States calls on nobody.

There is no human-resources training for how to respond when you work for an unpredictable president. It's perhaps fitting that when you visit the website of the White House Office of Administration it says, 'Check back soon for more information.'

Communicating to the President through the State Department would be like making love through the mattress.

Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.

All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.

The Secret Service is under orders that if President Bush is shot, to shoot Vice President Quayle.

I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today.

You can't just, boopity-boop, saunter into the Treasury. You need an appointment.

My position has always been that the House of Representatives does not take reservations. It's walk-in only.

Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Illinois is the only state where the present governor rides around in a car whose license plate was made by a previous governor.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Whenever it was necessary to have a large entourage, we used military vehicles or, as for the two state funerals and our state swearing in, we hired every spare Cadillac from every undertaking firm in Ottawa. It's a make-shift way to operate a country of the size and rank of Canada.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.