Top 80 Steve Bannon Quotes

Mitch McConnell, I’m going to light him up.

Breitbart is the most pro-Israel site in the United States of America.

An elite is someone who’s for themselves and not for the country.

The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

My suggestion and my recommendation is, to solve the problem in Korea, you need to solve that problem with China. It’s a client state of China.

The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You’re the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You’re the opposition party. The media’s the opposition party.

Planned Parenthood has amassed a Third Reich-style death count completely legally and while pocketing half a billion dollars a year to do so.

This country is in a crisis. And if you’re fighting to save this country, if you’re fighting to take this country back, it’s not going to be sunshine and patriots. It’s going to be people who want to fight. I mean, Andrew Breitbart was all about the fight.

I was raised in a desegregated neighborhood.

If ‘The New York Times’ didn’t exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern. ‘The Huffington Post’ and everything else is predicated on ‘The New York Times’. It’s a closed circle of information from which Hillary Clinton got all her information – and her confidence.

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

One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don’t be the first guy through the door because you’re going to get all the arrows.

Under our Constitution, if you’re a bad citizen, you’re still a citizen; that’s the way we roll.

The solution to ‘on-line harassment’ is simple: women should log off.

I totally respect the pope, and I totally respect the Catholic bishops and cardinals on doctrine.

Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.

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.

The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That’s how you win elections.

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… We have Boko Haram and other groups that will eventually partner with ISIS in this global war.

The media bubble is the ultimate symbol of what’s wrong with this country.

The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. That’s a brutal fact we have to face.

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.

As the Executive Chairman of ‘Breitbart News’ with a long run in business and finance, I can tell you, it’s hard to run a company that is infinitesimally smaller than Fox; it takes a steady and experienced hand.

I’m a very practical, pragmatic capitalist. I was trained at Goldman Sachs. I went to Harvard Business School. I was as hard-nosed a capitalist as you get. I specialized in media, in investing in media companies, and it’s a very, very tough environment.

With ‘Clinton Cash,’ we never really broke a story.

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.

Not one criminal charge has ever been brought to any bank executive associated with the 2008 crisis. And in fact, it gets worse. No bonuses and none of their equity was taken.

Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.

A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.

Goldman in the ’80s was like a priesthood, a monastic experience where you worked all the time but were incredibly dedicated to client services, to building and growing companies.

This country’s gonna be greater, more united, more powerful than it’s ever been.

Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.

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

I can see this on Wall Street today – I can see this with the securitization of everything is that, everything is looked at as a securitization opportunity. People are looked at as commodities. I don’t believe that our forefathers had that same belief.

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.

If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.

Mr. Mr. Mr. Trump… You’ve been in New York real estate and global real estate and the gaming industry and with politicians. You can’t say, reasonably, that Ted Cruz is the biggest liar you’ve ever seen.

America was built on her citizens.

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

I think anger is a good thing.

Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power.

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit.

After making the ‘Occupy’ movie, when you finish watching the film, you want to take a hot shower. You want to go home and shower because you’ve just spent an hour and fifteen minutes with the greasiest, dirtiest people you will ever see.

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 crisis. This crisis threatens the very sovereignty of our country.

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.

I became a huge Reagan admirer.

There’s nothing to the Russia investigation.

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

Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system.

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.

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

What built America’s called the American system, from Hamilton to Polk to Henry Clay to Lincoln to the Roosevelts. A system of protection of our manufacturing, financial system that lends to manufacturers, OK, and the control of our borders.

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.

Hillary Clinton’s not very bright. Everybody says she’s so smart, so much smarter than Donald Trump. She doesn’t really have a grasp. She doesn’t have a grasp on what’s important and what’s not.

I’ve studied documentarians extensively to come up with my own in-house style. I’m a student of Michael Moore’s films, of Eisenstein, Riefenstahl. Leave the politics aside, you have to learn from those past masters on how they were trying to communicate their ideas.

I am Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.

That’s one of the unintended consequences of the women’s liberation movement – that, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be feminine, they would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children.

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

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

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

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

The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country’s ever produced.

The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia.

Trump is an entrepreneur.

Technology not only allows grassroots conservatives like Palin to get their message across without the mainstream media’s filter and become a ‘force multiplier,’ it also helps them topple candidates financially backed by the establishment.

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.

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

There is voter fraud. I know there is voter fraud.