“But Ailes was convinced that Trump had no political beliefs or backbone.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“the political antichrist, a figure of dark but buffoonish scandal,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
All politicians, no matter how gifted, ultimately depend on circumstances for their success. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Trump is a man who, for better or worse, stands in opposition to the institutions that dominate American political life. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The new politics was not the art of the compromise but the art of conflict.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
If politics is a game of shrewd and knowing men, Trump has ruined it. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
In one sense, newspaper editor is an appropriate job for an out-of-work politician; politicians live the news cycle as intensely as editors. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The most characteristic aspects of the Clintons, a political couple who might otherwise largely see themselves as practical-minded centrist consensus builders, is,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The most important virtue in politics was once thought to be likeability. But in Corbyn, dislikeable was king. Actually, dislikeability reached its… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The Trump White House stood less for government and the push-pull of competing interests and developing policies, and more, in a brand-savvy… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The Apple imperative is to build a system that is 100 per cent resistant to any government warrant. The data on your… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“You defined yourself by your enemy’s reaction. Conflict was the media bait—hence, now, the political chum. The new politics was not the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
With obvious irony, many of the left-leaning privacy advocates who might cheer Apple's stand against the government's intrusion into its system, are… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
In America, the new post-postmodern politician is all about authenticity: the daffier you are, the 'realer' you must be. The more you… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon’s strategic view of government was shock and awe. Dominate rather than negotiate. Having daydreamed his way into ultimate bureaucratic power, he… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon’s entire political career, such as it was, had been in political media. It was also in Internet media—that is, media ruled… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Long-running scandal fuels targeted political media. It's the stuff of obsession, which is the basis of a passionate core audience. More obsession… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Almost everybody in the campaign, still an extremely small outfit, thought of themselves as a clear-eyed team, as realistic about their prospects… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Politics, which really is about the art of expression, ought to be a logical profession for writers (it's very hard to explain… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Running for office, or suggesting you might, is no longer about being a politician but being an independent opinion or sensibility entrepreneur.… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Possibly the defining development of postmodern politics - naturally, an American one - is the separation of personality from ideology. If you… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But Ailes was convinced that Trump had no political beliefs or backbone. The fact that Trump had become the ultimate avatar of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The three senior guys in the campaign,” an incredulous Bannon went on, “thought it was a good idea to meet with a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the protesters who believed they were seeing the company’s relationship with Trump in political terms were actually seeing this in conventional… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Political campaigns, substantially based on volunteer help, attract a range of silly, needy, and opportunistic figures. The Trump campaign perhaps scraped lower… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The chance that Don Jr. did not walk these jumos up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero,” said… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump, said Bannon, noting the obvious, was the least disciplined man in politics.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The Steve Bannon I know - I locate Steve's politics as a Democrat circa 1962. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I'm not a daily reporter. I'm not a newspaper reporter, I'm not a political reporter. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump was not a politician who could parse factions of support and opprobrium; he was a salesman who needed to make a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Cable television is basically now the business of former political professionals. Joe Scarborough, a former Florida Congressman, is a far more successful… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Anyone studying the position would conclude that a stronger chief of staff is better than a weaker one, and a chief of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win. And you probably can’t win unless you believe that… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Brexit and Trump had upended the fundamental establishment viewpoint that politics was aspirational, that good politics promised progress, generational betterment and ever-expanding… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“At points on the day’s spectrum of adverse political developments, he could have moments of, almost everyone would admit, irrationality. When that… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
I can hardly tell you how boring it is to interview almost every politician among the multitudes I have ever interviewed (journalists… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't necessarily stay mad for very long. He's a transactional guy. If you can offer him something, he will take it. Or… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“it confirmed Bannon’s worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“An important aspect of Kaplan’s New York Observer and its self-conscious inside media baseball was that the paper became the prime school for a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“The candidate who billed himself as a billionaire—ten times over—refused even to invest his own money in it.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
If institutions don't grow, they... well, I don't know what happens to them, because they always grow. I suppose the point is that we… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Even though Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Trump, who referred to the Chinese leader as “Mr. X-i”; the president was told to think of him as a woman and call him… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Donald Trump, even more than his father, was perceived as a vulgarian—after all, he put his name on his buildings, quite a déclassé thing… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“The kids”—Jared and Ivanka—exhibited an increasingly panicked sense that the FBI and DOJ were moving beyond Russian election interference and into family finances. “Ivanka… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
“Politics had seemed to become, even well before the age of Trump, a mortal affair. It was now zero-sum: When one side profited, another… — Michael Wolff Copy Share
