Quotes from Steve Hilton

We didn't move here so I could save American democracy. But I've embraced it with the zeal of a convert.

Establishment idiots say the Trump tax cuts only helped the rich. Don't they understand anything about economics?

Whatever else people knew about Donald Trump going into 2016, it was obvious he was strong. He said what he thought, no matter who it offended.

Membership of the E.U. makes Britain literally ungovernable, in the sense that no administration elected by the people can govern the country.

It's the smartphone that has turned adults and children alike into tech-addicted zombies, dumbly swiping and jabbing at their screens, oblivious to the world around them.

Brexit was, at its heart, about democracy and sovereignty.

The Democrats are up to their necks in foreign meddling. Nancy Pelosi took money from Ukraine lobbyists. Chuck Schumer took money from Saudi Arabia and Mexico.

In business, there's a saying: 'Disagree and commit.' It means that everyone should speak up before a decision is made. But once the boss has decided, you all get behind it to make it happen.

You can do business with America or the authoritarian dictators of Beijing, who oppress their own people, put millions of Muslims in concentration camps, and are rolling out a new and insidious colonialism around the world with their rapacious belt and road infrastructure program. Which side are you on, Britain? Canada? The EU? You choose.

Thinking back to my time in the U.K., before the election and then working in the British government, the thing that has really driven me is this idea of giving power to people and taking power out of the hands of those who try and grab it all for themselves.

President Trump is trying to avoid war through economic pressure. Our so-called allies are undermining that pressure and in the process making war more likely.

With President Trump, we've seen the lowest ever African-American and Hispanic unemployment.

Rudy Giuliani was a great mayor and a great leader, but he has turned into an unmitigated - and now, it seems, unethical - disaster.

President Trump is the first western leader in 50 years to stand up to China.

In any discussion of technology, you hear the same argument: You can't turn the clock back and you can't put the genie back in the bottle. Maybe not. But there are steps we can take to limit the social harm caused by this industry, just like we do with others.

The most important thing about a candidate is not their promises - those hardly ever get delivered anyway. It's about how they would respond to unpredictable future events. And that's about their character.

Most parents don't want their kids to have smartphones in the first place. But parents worry about the social stigma of their child being the only one without a phone.

For decades, without so much as a peep from the Trump-hating establishment, China manipulated its currency and stole American technology.

For the next generation, focused on the future, the E.U. is as weird and old-fashioned as having a landline.

I do not own a cellphone; I do not use a cellphone. I do not have a phone. No. Phone. Not even an old-fashioned dumb one. Nothing.

What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political.

Winston Churchill famously said that meeting jaw-to-jaw is better than war. With Trump, the strategy seems to be jobs jobs jobs - at home and abroad.

I was on my bike, cycling to Stanford, and it struck me that a week had gone by without my having a phone. And everything was just fine. Better than fine, actually. I felt more relaxed, carefree, happier.

The Democrats' obsession with scandal is out of touch and decadent. People want substance, not scandal.