--- title: "12 Steve Bannon Quotes By Michael Wolff" description: "12 Steve Bannon quotes by Michael Wolff. Plus more from Michael Wolff and more Steve Bannon sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/michael-wolff-423_democrat_the-steve-bannon-i-know-i-locate-steve-s_3008262.jpg" --- > [The Steve Bannon I know - I locate Steve's politics as a Democrat circa 1962.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/the-steve-bannon-i-know-i-locate-steve-s-politics-as-a-democrat-circa/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/michael-wolff-423_democrat_the-steve-bannon-i-know-i-locate-steve-s_3008262.jpg) > [When 'Fire and Fury' came out, I thought Steve Bannon would certainly never speak to me again, and the truth is, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/when-fire-and-fury-came-out-i-thought-steve-bannon-would-certainly/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f2/michael-wolff-423_again_when-fire-and-fury-came-out-i-thought-st_403152.jpg) > [I mean, can Donald Trump get elected again in 2020 without Steve Bannon? I would say no.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/i-mean-can-donald-trump-get-elected-again-in-2020-without-steve/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ba/michael-wolff-423_again_i-mean-can-donald-trump-get-elected-agai_415912.jpg) > [“Scaramucci also took on Steve Bannon: “I’m not Steve Bannon. I’m not trying to suck my own cock.” (In fact, Bannon learned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/scaramucci-also-took-on-steve-bannon-i-m-not-steve-bannon-i-m-not/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43b/michael-wolff-423_steve-bannon_scaramucci-also-took-on-steve-bannon-i-m_2002278.jpg) > [“Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House, and Reince Priebus was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/steve-bannon-was-running-the-steve-bannon-white-house-jared-kushner/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e64/michael-wolff-423_paul-ryan_steve-bannon-was-running-the-steve-banno_1581965.jpg) > [“As Walsh saw it, Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/as-walsh-saw-it-steve-bannon-was-running-the-steve-bannon-white-house/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ef/michael-wolff-423_paul-ryan_as-walsh-saw-it-steve-bannon-was-running_454933.jpg) > [“If he was not having his six-thirty dinner with Steve Bannon, then, more to his liking, he was in bed by that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/if-he-was-not-having-his-six-thirty-dinner-with-steve-bannon-then/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/977/michael-wolff-423_phone-calls_if-he-was-not-having-his-six-thirty-dinn_1416192.jpg) > [“Dopey Don Jr. (Fredo, as Steve Bannon would dub him, in one of his frequent Godfather borrowings) was simply trying to prove…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/dopey-don-jr-fredo-as-steve-bannon-would-dub-him-in-one-of-his/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43f/michael-wolff-423_godfather_dopey-don-jr-fredo-as-steve-bannon-would_2743609.jpg) > [“Trump had no real relationship with either father or daughter. He’d had only a few conversations with Bob Mercer, who mostly talked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/trump-had-no-real-relationship-with-either-father-or-daughter-he-d/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b66/michael-wolff-423_children_trump-had-no-real-relationship-with-eith_3073141.jpg) > [“Bannon, for instance, even driven by his imperative just to get things done, did not use a computer. How did he do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/bannon-for-instance-even-driven-by-his-imperative-just-to-get-things/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c5/michael-wolff-423_big-picture_bannon-for-instance-even-driven-by-his-i_213743.jpg) > [“There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon’s not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/there-was-in-the-space-of-little-more-than-an-hour-in-steve-bannon-s/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e98/michael-wolff-423_trump_there-was-in-the-space-of-little-more-th_2678335.jpg) > [“Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration. He had hoped for a big blowout. Tom Barrack, the would-be showman—in addition to Michael…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/trump-did-not-enjoy-his-own-inauguration-he-had-hoped-for-a-big/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/158/michael-wolff-423_chief-of-staff_trump-did-not-enjoy-his-own-inauguration_213852.jpg) ## Other authors on Steve Bannon ## More by Michael Wolff > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/donald-trump-doesn-t-necessarily-stay-mad-for-very-long-he-s-a/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [“he could yet make a case for a straight line from Nixon to Trump.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/he-could-yet-make-a-case-for-a-straight-line-from-nixon-to-trump/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [“it confirmed Bannon’s worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/it-confirmed-bannon-s-worst-fear-trump-in-his-true-heart-was-a/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/an-important-aspect-of-kaplan-s-new-york-observer-and-its-self/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [“The candidate who billed himself as a billionaire—ten times over—refused even to invest his own money in it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/the-candidate-who-billed-himself-as-a-billionaire-ten-times-over/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/if-institutions-don-t-grow-they-well-i-don-t-know-what-happens-to/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [“Even though Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/even-though-trump-liked-to-portray-his-business-as-an-empire-it-was/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/the-organizational-premise-of-the-trump-white-house-the-family-would/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/trump-who-referred-to-the-chinese-leader-as-mr-x-i-the-president-was/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/donald-trump-even-more-than-his-father-was-perceived-as-a-vulgarian/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/the-index-that-appeared-in-the-print-version-of-this-title-does-not/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/trump-liked-to-say-that-one-of-the-things-that-made-life-worth-living/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/the-kids-jared-and-ivanka-exhibited-an-increasingly-panicked-sense/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [I am old enough to think the word 'journalist' is not all that noble a designation. Journalist - that record keeper, quote taker and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/i-am-old-enough-to-think-the-word-journalist-is-not-all-that-noble-a/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/politics-had-seemed-to-become-even-well-before-the-age-of-trump-a/) [Michael Wolff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wolff/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/steve-bannon/michael-wolff/#itemlist", "name": "12 Steve Bannon Quotes By Michael Wolff", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Steve Bannon I know - I locate Steve's politics as a Democrat circa 1962.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Wolff" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/the-steve-bannon-i-know-i-locate-steve-s-politics-as-a-democrat-circa/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/michael-wolff-423_democrat_the-steve-bannon-i-know-i-locate-steve-s_3008262.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/michael-wolff-423_democrat_the-steve-bannon-i-know-i-locate-steve-s_3008262.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/michael-wolff-423_democrat_the-steve-bannon-i-know-i-locate-steve-s_3008262.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Steve Bannon I know - I locate Steve's politics as a Democrat circa 1962.” — Michael Wolff", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When 'Fire and Fury' came out, I thought Steve Bannon would certainly never speak to me again, and the truth is, he never stopped speaking.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Wolff" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wolff/when-fire-and-fury-came-out-i-thought-steve-bannon-would-certainly/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f2/michael-wolff-423_again_when-fire-and-fury-came-out-i-thought-st_403152.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f2/michael-wolff-423_again_when-fire-and-fury-came-out-i-thought-st_403152.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f2/michael-wolff-423_again_when-fire-and-fury-came-out-i-thought-st_403152.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When 'Fire and Fury' came out, I thought Steve Bannon would certainly never speak to me again, and the truth…” — Michael Wolff", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I mean, can Donald Trump get elected again in 2020 without Steve Bannon? 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