What out country is facing right now is a skills gap.
Donald Trump has made outstanding picks for his Cabinet.
Politics is a pure meritocracy. That's why Gordon Brown's cabinet had two brothers and a married couple in it. They just happened to be the best people around.
Before I was elected President I thought the chief pleasure of it would be to give honors and offices to old friends. But you know you can't do that when you're President of the United States; you have to get the best men.
As important as issues are, as important as money is ..., you've got to have good candidates.
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Some of the most impressive judicial nominees are grossly mistreated.
We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.
It is true that jihadists are often middle class. But that’s because terrorist groups are like other employers: they accept the best candidates who apply.
Honorable party service will certainly not be esteemed by me a disqualification for public office, but it will in no case be allowed to serve as a shield of official negligence, incompetency, or delinquency.
If the Gods Wanted Us to Vote, They Would Have Given Us Better Candidates
Let appointments and removals be made on business principles and fixed rules.
I'm deciding where I am best for this president-elect [Donald Trump] and this vice president-elect [Mike Pence] in due course. But there are many qualified men and women who can serve him at the highest levels.
It is not good for the country to have a college professor as a President.
Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.
Is there so great a superfluity of men fit for high duties, that society can afford to reject the service of any competent person?
If I cannot find qualified Republicans, I am going to appoint Democrats.
Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.
Americans want to be represented by the best candidate, not the one with the richest friends.
We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce.
Employers, like most people, tend to trust their intuitions. But when employers decide whom to hire, they trust those intuitions far more than they should.
NASA has never had a problem finding capable people to be astronauts. NASA's problem was, and still is, finding ways to cut the list of capable applicants down to a manageable length.
I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
We must ensure that we are hiring and retaining qualified, diverse candidates not only to teach in our classrooms, but to work at the DOE overseeing our students' education.
An 18-year-old is good enough for our business, and we can teach them engineering in two years.
