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“I’m a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”
— Steve Bannon
Tagged: Marxist-Leninist, Leninist, Establishment
“You know, the last time someone ordered me to something, I was 18 years old. And it was my daddy. And I didn't listen to him, either.”
— Steve Bannon, Freedom Caucus Member Goes Toe-to-Toe with Trump Adviser Steve Bannon Over Health Care
Tagged: Can't Tell Me Nothing, Won't Listen
“Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they’re blind to who we are and what we’re doing.”
— Steve Bannon, Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect's Strategist Plots "An Entirely New Political Movement"(Exclusive)
Tagged: Trump Administration
“I think I'm a street fighter. And by the way, I think that's why Donald Trump and I get along so well. Donald Trump's a fighter.”
— Steve Bannon, Bannon on 60 Minutes: 9 key quotes
Tagged: Donald Trump and Steve Bannon
“The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced.”
— Steve Bannon, Steve Bannon fired by Trump on John Kelly's advice
Tagged: Baby Boomers, Narcissistic, Entitled
“I don’t like to prognosticate but I was the very first guy three years ago that said Trump will be the Republican nominee and was mocked and ridiculed.”
— Steve Bannon
Tagged: Forecasts, Predictions, Republicans, Donald Trump
“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.”
— Steve Bannon, Breitbart's Bannon declares war on the GOP
Tagged: Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Populist, Economic Nationalism
“They wouldn’t be a bunch of dykes that came from the Seven Sisters schools up in New England. That drives the left insane and that’s why they hate these women.”
— Steve Bannon, Trump Campaign CEO Once Blasted "Bunch Of Dykes" From The "Seven Sisters Schools"
Tagged: Homophobia, Seven Sisters Schools, New England, Left Wing
“There is a growing global antiestablishment revolt against the permanent political class at home, and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Texas, to London, England.”
— Steve Bannon, What the Bannon-Kushner power struggle means for the presidency
Tagged: Electoral College, bannon, administrative state, Trump, core democratic institutions, real estate scion, Government, enthusiastic chief executives, government scientists, kushner, intelligence agencies, Americans hate, Politics, antiestablishment populist, antiestablishment populism, antiestablishment, business interests, state, horrible regulations, corporate officer, Election
“I regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding Don Jr has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency.”
— Steve Bannon, Exclusive: Bannon apologizes
Tagged: Bannon On Trump, Trump's Team, Bannon The Michael Wolff Book
“Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.”
— Steve Bannon
Tagged: Donald Trump, Populism, Nationalism
“We should just go buck wild...Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that’s the ONLY thing that will make them do their duty.”
— Steve Bannon
Tagged: Grassroots, Hate
“The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.”
— Steve Bannon, Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect's Strategist Plots "An Entirely New Political Movement"(Exclusive)
Tagged: Clintons, Bill Clinton, Uneducated, Hillary Clinton, Low-Information Voters
“The media bubble is the ultimate symbol of what's wrong with this country. It's just a circle of people talking to themselves who have no fucking idea what's going on.”
— Steve Bannon, Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect's Strategist Plots "An Entirely New Political Movement"(Exclusive)
Tagged: Media, Elites
“You have an expansionist Islam and you have an expansionist China. Right? They are motivated. They're arrogant. They're on the march. And they think the Judeo-Christian West is on the retreat.”
— Steve Bannon
Tagged: Islam, Jihadism, China, Arrogance, Judeo-Christian, Western Civilization, Culture Clash
“I turned on Wall Street for the same reason everybody else did: The American taxpayer was forced to cut mook deals to bail out guys who didn't deserve it.”
— Steve Bannon, For Trump adviser Stephen Bannon, fiery populism followed life in elite circles
Tagged: Wall Street, Taxpayers, Bailouts, Stimulus
“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.”
— Steve Bannon
Tagged: Sharia, Middle East, Islam
“If you want to see the Trump agenda, it's very simple. It's all in the speeches. He's probably the greatest public speaker in those public arenas since William Jennings Bryan.”
— Steve Bannon, Critic's Notebook: Steve Bannon's Darth Vader Goes for Kumbaya Moment at CPAC
Tagged: Trump
“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, uh, help crush it more. These guys are a collection of clowns.”
— Steve Bannon, Steve Bannon, Unrepentant
Tagged: Ethno-nationalism
“I am the leader of the national-populist movement.”
— Steve Bannon, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Tagged: Trump vs. Bannon, Populism In America
“I don't need the affirmation of the mainstream media. I don't care what they say. They can call me an anti-Semite. They can call me racist. They call me nativist. You can call me anything you want. OK? As long as we're driving this agenda for the working men and women of this country, I'm happy.”
— Steve Bannon, Breitbart's Bannon declares war on the GOP
Tagged: Mainstream Media, Media, Anti-Semite, racist, Nativist, Working Class
“The modern economics of the newsroom don't support big investigative reporting staffs. You wouldn’t get a Watergate, a Pentagon Papers today, because nobody can afford to let a reporter spend seven months on a story. We can. We’re working as a support function.”
— Steve Bannon, This Man Is the Most Dangerous Political Operative in America
Tagged: Journalism, Economics, Investigative Reporting, Pentagon Papers, Watergate
“We're at economic war with China. It’s in all their literature. They’re not shy about saying what they’re doing. One of us is going to be a hegemon in 25 or 30 years and it’s gonna be them if we go down this path. On Korea, they’re just tapping us along. It’s just a sideshow.”
— Steve Bannon
Tagged: China, Trade War, Economic Nationalism, Korea, Hegemon
“What we need to do is bitch-slap the Republican Party.”
— Steve Bannon, Here's Audio Of Trump Campaign CEO Saying "What We Need To Do Is Bitch-Slap" The GOP
Tagged: GOP, Republican Party, Bitch-Slap
“If you give us a plan, we will execute it.”
— Steve Bannon, Surprise! Trump promised a big boost for black colleges—and now he's cutting them a raw deal.
Tagged: plans, Planning, execution
“I'm not a white nationalist, I'm a nationalist.”
— Steve Bannon, Nancy Pelosi calls on Trump to fire Steve Bannon after Charlottesville violence
Tagged: Nancy Pelosi, steve bannon, Donald Trump, Charlottesville, White Nationalists, white supremacists, Violence, politics news, election news, political news, political news articles
“The center core of what we believe, that we're a nation with an economy, not an economy just in some global marketplace with open borders, but we are a nation with a culture and a – and a reason for being. And I think that is what unites us and I think that is what is going to unite this movement going forward.”
— Steve Bannon, Trump echoes Steve Bannon in raucous nationalist speech to the biggest conservative conference of the year
Tagged: What Steve Bannon Believes, Against Globalism, Unique Cultural Ethos, White House, Donald Trump, steve bannon, CPAC 2017, Allan Smith
“An elite is someone who's for themselves and not for the country.”
— Steve Bannon, Sarah Palin Movie Maker Wants You to Love Her Like He Does
Tagged: Elites, Elitism, Nationalism
“Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.”
— Steve Bannon
Tagged: Fear, motivation
“The road to the establishment of an Islamic Republic in the United States starts slowly and subtly with the loss of the will to win. The road to this unique hell on earth is paved with the best intentions from our major institutions. This political/accommodation/appeasement approach is not simply a function of any one individual’s actions but lies at the heart of our most important cultural and political institutions.”
— Steve Bannon, Steve Bannon's Islamophobic film script just one example of anti-Muslim views
Tagged: Republic, United States, Jihad, Islam, Appeasement
“George Clooney, who is a moron, came here to Cannes and gave a press conference saying, ‘Under no circumstances will Trump ever be president. Hillary Clinton will be the next president.’ Well, we can’t wait to make George Clooney eat his words. He has a false patina of intellectualism and this is what a hypocrite he is; he talks all this trash about money and politics and global warming but lives up in Italy at the villa [on Lake Como] and flies around in a jet.”
— Steve Bannon
Tagged: george clooney, Intellectualism, Global Warming, Money and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Moron
“My support is also unwavering for the president and his agenda—as I have shown daily in my national radio broadcasts, on the pages of Breitbart News and in speeches and appearances from Tokyo and Hong Kong to Arizona and Alabama. President Trump was the only candidate that could have taken on and defeated the Clinton apparatus. I am the only person to date to conduct a global effort to preach the message of Trump and Trumpism; and remain ready to stand in the breech for this president's efforts to make America great again.”
— Steve Bannon, READ: Steve Bannon's full statement on comments attributed to him in 'Fire and Fury'
Tagged: Breitbart News, Donald Trump, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Arizona, Alabama, Trumpism, MAGA
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