Quotes About Loyalty

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

Look, Kasowitz has known him for twenty-five years. Kasowitz has gotten him out of all kinds of jams. Kasowitz on the campaign—what did we have, a hundred women? Kasowitz took care of all of them. And now he lasts, what, four weeks? He's in the mumble tank.

Trump admired her not because she had the political skills to protect him, but for her pliant dutifulness. Her job was to devote herself to his care and feeding.

Trump demanded subservience, but when he got it he was suspicious of the person providing it.

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.

We serve at the president's displeasure," another.

Who, among the right-minded and reasonably competent, would willingly work with Rudy?

Trump would shortly become a Gorsuch fan. But before settling on Gorsuch, he wondered why the job wasn't going to a friend and loyalist. In the Trump view, it was rather a waste to give the job to someone he didn't even know.

As always, Trump's regard or scorn was infectious. If you were in favor, then whatever and whomever he associated with you was also in favor. If you weren't, then everything associated with you was poisonous.

Fooling some of the people all of the time defined Trump's hard-core base.

Sooner or later, Trump felt contempt for anyone who showed him too much devotion.

Almost everybody in the White House followed Trump's thinking by tracking whom he had called the night before.)

It didn't exactly surprise Bannon when Trump flipped; Bannon understood how easy it was to bullshit a bullshitter.

His sons, Don Jr. and Eric—behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay, after the sons of Saddam Hussein—wondered if there couldn't somehow be two parallel White House structures, one dedicated to their father's big-picture views, personal appearances, and salesmanship and the other concerned with day-to-day management issues.

Donald, you can't do it. You've made your bed and Steve is in it.

By the time Bannon and Priebus were back in Washington, three blue-chip firms had said no. All of them were afraid they would face a rebellion among the younger staff if they represented Trump, afraid Trump would publicly humiliate them if the going got tough, and afraid Trump would stiff them for the bill. In the end, nine top firms turned them down.

Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends' wives into bed.

the more doubts gathered around Flynn, the more certain the president became that Flynn was his all-important ally.

He was the oldest. When we left Kentucky, our folks told him to look after me. Didn't say a word to me. Wouldn't have occurred to them.

it's true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no longer read the headlines we long to return to our ancestral home where our forebears once lived under an angel's wing we long to find that strange morality which sanctified life to the end we crave something like loyalty like the embrace of mild addictions something that transcends yet contains life we cannot live far from eternity

Were they ready to give up everything for their country? I felt ready to give up everything, not really for my country, but in general.

A través de los perros rendimos homenaje al amor y a su posibilidad. ¿Qué es un perro sino una máquina de amor? Le ponen delante a un ser humano, le encargan la misión de amarlo y, por poco agraciado, perverso, deforme o estúpido que sea el ser humano, el perro lo ama.

The sun shone on the meadows and woods like a trusted employee.

Fox se tumbó a mi lado y suspiró suavemente. Iba a morir junto a mí, y lo sabía; ya era un perro viejo; se durmió casi enseguida.