Steve Bannon

“It was pretty evident, I think, the direction the country was going, and that's why I think Donald Trump offered such a clear alternative to that from Hillary Clinton.”

“This accumulated debt at all levels of our society poses an immediate existential threat to America. Now unlike the manufactured crises of global warming and healthcare, this is a true crisi...”

“It's a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, is, I think, metastasizing, almost far quicker than governments can handle it.....”

“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...”

“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.”

“There's a reason that male golfers don't compete against female golfers. They're in a league of their own, and it would end in tears. It's time to apply this logic to the online world.”

“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.”

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

“The solution to 'on-line harassment' is simple: women should log off.”

“I think the bailouts in 2008 were wrong. And I think, you look in hindsight, it was a lot of misinformation that was presented about the bailouts of the banks in the West.”

“I think that Putin and his cronies are really a kleptocracy, that are really an imperialist power that want to expand.”

“I think Mitch McConnell and, to a degree, Paul Ryan - they do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented. It's very obvious.”

“I'm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it's the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Shipyards, ironworks, get t...”

“There's nothing to the Russia investigation.”

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

“'National Review' and 'The Weekly Standard' are both left-wing magazines, and I want to destroy them also.”

“I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too.”

“We have a mantra. 'Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs'.”

“What the media misses is the amount of anger that's out there. Trump didn't create that.”