Quotes from Steve Bannon

I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.

I became a huge Reagan admirer.

Donald Trump has a grasp on what's important and what's marginalia.

Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.

I don't think people realize how life-altering running for president is.

Remember Circuit City? Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? Sports Authority? Once, all were billion-dollar companies - then gone in a moment. The fatal problem might be fraud or corruption, but more often, it's simply that management didn't see 'over the other side of the hill.'

Without U.S. independence, North America would have remained a rural, non-industrial breadbasket. Blessed as it was with natural resources, agrarian North America would have supplied cotton and beef and lumber to industrial Britain. America would thus be more like Australia - a nice enough place to live, but no kind of world power.

I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I'd never tip my hand to the other side.

We hire people who are freaks. They don't have social lives.

Ethno-nationalism - it's losers. It's a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, eh, help crush it more.

What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.

The modern economics of the newsroom don't support big investigative reporting staffs.

What Trump represents is a restoration - a restoration of true American capitalism.

We're at economic war with China. It's in all their literature. They're not shy about saying what they're doing.

I think that most people in the Middle East, at least 50%, believe in being sharia-compliant. If you're sharia-compliant or want to impose sharia law, the United States is the wrong place for you.

The American television industry is a Darwinian environment where success is usually measured in inches, not yards. That is, for most TV media, audiences have gotten so small that one measures 'victories' in tenths of a point - as in, a 2.2 percent share is a great leap over a 2.1 percent share.

I want China to stop appropriating our technology. China is, through forced technology transfer and through stealing our technology, but really forced technology transfer, is cutting out the beating heart of American innovation.

Our vision - Andrew's vision - was always to build a global, center-right, populist, anti-establishment news site.

There's nothing to the Russia investigation.

I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.

To be brutally frank, I mean Christianity is dying in Europe, and Islam is on the rise.

My old firm, Goldman Sachs - traditionally, the best banks are leveraged 8:1. When we had the financial crisis in 2008, the investment banks were leveraged 35:1. Those rules had specifically been changed by a guy named Hank Paulson. He was secretary of Treasury.

Our definition of the alt-right is younger people who are anti-globalists, very nationalist, terribly anti-establishment.

What I find shocking is that there's this thought process that Hillary Clinton is going to be president of the United States, and to even think of Donald Trump is a joke.