Political Quotes

“it has been said no one is indispensable and that may be true, but next week we will test that theory after the departure of my chief of staff, Lisa Wolski. Lisa has been on my whip staff since January of 2003. She started as tax counsel in my personal office, because I serve on the Finance Committee, and then moved to the whip office in late 2007. We refer to people around here as staffers. She is more than that. That name doesn't begin to encapsulate what we think of those people who work with us every day and provide us with all the things we need to try to be successful. That certainly is Lisa Wolski. She is and always has been one of my most trusted advisers. She is the gold standard of expertise and professionalism. Everything I have asked her to do she has done and done well. More important, she brings to me the things she thinks I should be thinking about, and more often than not that is exactly what I end up doing. She knows what she is talking about. She knows what I want and what I need. Those who work with her know she is smart, she is articulate, and through her mastery of complex policies and political savvy, she has accomplished great things in my whip office during the time I have been whip. I cannot tell you the number of people who have told me, over the last several weeks since they learned she is going to be departing, how much they will miss working with her.…”