“he could yet make a case for a straight line from Nixon to Trump.” — Michael Wolff Nixon Copy Share Image
“it confirmed Bannon’s worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.” — Michael Wolff Fear Copy Share Image
“I now understand what it is like to be in the court of the Tudors,” reflected Bannon.” — Michael Wolff Tudors Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump, even more than his father, was perceived as a vulgarian—after all, he put his name on his buildings, quite a… — Michael Wolff Donald trump Copy Share Image
“Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist...He was postliterate -- total… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
“Trump, who referred to the Chinese leader as “Mr. X-i”; the president was told to think of him as a woman and… — Michael Wolff Leadership Copy Share Image
“that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book.” — Michael Wolff Books Copy Share Image
“Bannon had announced himself as Trump’s brain, a boast that vastly irritated the president.” — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers.” — Michael Wolff Campaign 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 Abstract Copy Share Image
“Who can talk you through this stuff before you decided to act on it?” “Well,” said the president, “you won’t like the… — Michael Wolff Said President Copy Share Image
“There was no real up-and-down structure, but merely a figure at the top and then everyone else scrambling for his attention. It… — Michael Wolff Attention Focused Copy Share Image
“They take everything I’ve ever said and exaggerate it,” said the president in his first week in the White House during a… — Michael Wolff White house 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 Donald trump Copy Share Image
“But Thiel, who gave a speech supporting Trump at the Republican Convention in Cleveland, reported back that, even having been forewarned, he… — Michael Wolff Communication 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 Hatred Copy Share Image
“if something happened and he wasn’t present, he didn’t care about it and barely recognized it. His response then was often just… — Michael Wolff Executive branch Copy Share Image
Unlike financial impropriety, which needs to be proven, a charge of sexual loutishness and aggressiveness in and of itself can finish you… — Michael Wolff Enough Copy Share Image
“Trump, in a smart move, picked up his media reputation and relocated it from a hypercritical New York to a more value-free… — Michael Wolff Presidential campaign Copy Share Image
“In Trump’s 2011 CPAC address he specifically calls for a relaxation of immigration restrictions for Europeans . . . that we should… — Michael Wolff Conservative 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 Rich people Copy Share Image
“It would be hard to imagine someone who expected a greater awareness of and more catering to his peculiar whims, rhythms, prejudices,… — Michael Wolff Desire Copy Share Image
“Pivoting from Trump himself, Bannon plunged on with the Trump agenda. “Day one we’re moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Netanyahu’s all… — Michael Wolff Bad guy Copy Share Image
“Trump’s wounded feelings—his sense of being shunned and unloved on the very day he became president—helped send that message. When he came… — Michael Wolff George w Copy Share Image
“What has he gotten himself into with the Russians?” pressed Ailes. “Mostly,” said Bannon, “he went to Russia and he thought he… — Michael Wolff Putin Copy Share Image
“He reprimanded the housekeeping staff for picking up his shirt from the floor: “If my shirt is on the floor, it’s because… — Michael Wolff Fear Copy Share Image
“the week of July 24 was a head-slammer. First, it opened the next episode in what had become a comic-opera” — Michael Wolff Television Copy Share Image
Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to… — Michael Wolff Amendment Copy Share Image
“purpose of actually changing the country. Changing it quickly, radically, and truly.” — Michael Wolff Change Copy Share Image
“The candidate who billed himself as a billionaire—ten times over—refused even to invest his own money in it.” — Michael Wolff Billionaire Copy Share Image
“The Russia story was—just two weeks into the new presidency—a dividing line with each side viewing the other as pushing fake news.” — Michael Wolff Fake news Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump and his tiny band of campaign warriors were ready to lose with fire and fury. They were not ready to… — Michael Wolff Trump Copy Share Image
“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.” — Michael Wolff Life Copy Share Image
“the world needs borders—or the world should return to a time when it had borders. When America was great. Trump had become… — Michael Wolff Time Copy Share Image
“With the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017, the United States entered the eye of the most extraordinary political storm… — Michael Wolff Inauguration Copy Share Image
“Elon Musk, in Trump Tower, pitched Trump on the new administration’s joining him in his race to Mars, which Trump jumped at.” — Michael Wolff Management Copy Share Image
“...Mitch McConnell's prescription that "this president will sign whatever is put in front of him.” — Michael Wolff Prescription Copy Share Image
“His advisers didn’t know whether he was an isolationist or a militarist, or whether he could distinguish between the two.” — Michael Wolff Loneliness Copy Share Image
“As it happened, Conway meant to say “alternative information,” which at least would imply there might be additional data.” — Michael Wolff Data Copy Share Image
“Kushner saw the chance to convert the issue of the wall into a bilateral agreement addressing immigration—” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
