Quotes About Politics

In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people pushing the bounds of their own power—and the richer they were, the more difficult, sociopathic, and power-mad they might be—Bob and Rebekah Mercer were quite onto themselves.

Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, the PR aide put on the campaign by Ivanka Trump, had an affair that ended in a public fight on the street—

If the new right had elected Trump, it was the older Fortune 100 executives who most pleased him

Bannon averred: "When you take out all the never-Trump guys who signed all those letters and all the neocons who got us in all these wars … it's not a deep bench.

They weren't operatives, they were believers, which is what Trump wanted them to be.

Kushner was going to pursue as his first leadership mark a meeting with the Mexican president, whom his father-in-law had threatened and insulted throughout the campaign.

The president's worst impulses seem to run through Conway without benefit of a filter.

Jared and Ivanka had made an earnest deal between themselves: if sometime in the future the time came, she'd be the one to run for president (or the first one of them to take the shot).

Michael Wolff

resisters, working in the Trump White House, who had come to see themselves as patriots protecting the country from the president they worked for.

I now understand what it is like to be in the court of the Tudors," reflected Bannon.

In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people pushing the bounds of their own power—and the richer they were, the more difficult, sociopathic, and power-mad they might be—Bob and Rebekah Mercer were quite onto themselves. If Trump's ascent

Michael Wolff

David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest.

the Trump bubble. Trump was incapable of admitting vulnerability—any at all.

Pelosi, Bannon felt, saw the greater truth: the Trump administration would undo itself.

based on conversations that took place over a period of eighteen months with the president,

She was a nonevent on the campaign. She became a White House staffer and that's when people suddenly realized she's dumb as a brick. A little marketing savvy and has a look, but as far as understanding actually how the world works and what politics is and what it means—nothing. Once you expose that, you lose such credibility. Jared just kind of flits in and does the Arab stuff.

The mantra was simple: if there was no Wall, there was no Trump. Stopping immigration was the Trump story.

better understand the rules: they worked for Donald Trump, not for the president of the United States.

Convinced he knew the direction of success, keenly aware of his own age and finite opportunities, and—if for no clear reason—seeing himself as a talented political infighter, Bannon sought to draw the line between believers and sell-outs, being and nothingness.

he could yet make a case for a straight line from Nixon to Trump.

Lou Dobbs, a mainstay of Trump support and philosophy, told Bannon he could not believe how delusional Trump had become.

Having attained the unimaginable—bringing a fierce alt-right, antiliberal ethnopopulism into a central place in the White House—Bannon found himself face to face with the untenable: undermined by and having to answer to rich, entitled Democrats.