Stephen Farnsworth famous quotes

FBI directors serve at the pleasure of the president, but they often have terms that transcend partisan transfers of power at the White House. Firing an FBI director is a major problem from the point of view of a president who is already facing significant questions about investigations already underway.
-- Stephen Farnsworth

#House #President #Problem

It's generally not wise to pick a fight with law enforcement in politics, especially when you're in the middle of a pretty significant scandal already.
-- Stephen Farnsworth

#Wise #Fighting #Law Enforcement

The one thing you never want to do in politics is take the hit for someone else's misconduct - especially someone as erratic as President Trump.
-- Stephen Farnsworth

#President

Firing someone who is investigating you is a counterproductive strategy.
-- Stephen Farnsworth

#Strategy

Presidents are given immense power in the American political system when it comes to personnel. FBI directors are given ten-year terms to insulate them from politics as much as one can, but it's not absolute protection. If a president wants to fire an FBI director, they can do that.
-- Stephen Farnsworth

#Political #President #Protection

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

Well, the title "An Inconvenient Truth" is a way of highlighting the reasons why some people, including the president, don't seem to accept the truth.

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

I have talked with representatives from the two other parties who said they had no problem with the offer either.

The problem with the internet is that anyone can just make stuff up