“Trade it out so in the end everyone got something, and the better dealmaker got a little more.” — Michael Wolff Trade Copy Share Image
“This was his fundamental innovation in governing: regular, uncontrolled bursts of anger and spleen.” — Michael Wolff Anger Copy Share Image
“Trump, said Bannon, noting the obvious, was the least disciplined man in politics.” — Michael Wolff Politics Copy Share Image
“It didn't exactly surprise Bannon when Trump flipped; Bannon understood how easy it was to bullshit a bullshitter.” — 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 quite profoundly seemed unable to distinguish between his political advantage and his personal needs—he thought emotionally, not strategically.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“There are few modern political variables more disruptive than a dedicated prosecutor” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The president did not truly listen to anybody. The more you talked, the less he listened.” — Michael Wolff Communication Copy Share Image
“The kids”—Jared and Ivanka—exhibited an increasingly panicked sense that the FBI and DOJ were moving beyond Russian election interference and into family… — Michael Wolff Family 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Trump just did not, as Spicer later put it, give a fuck. You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
If selling had been part of his job description, Rusbridger, who never met a pound he had to earn that didn't disgust… — Michael Wolff Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
One of the anomalies of digital journalism is a lack of clarity between high and low. That's the historic distinction in publishing,… — Michael Wolff Clarity Copy Share Image
“In business meetings, observers would be nonplussed that Charlie and Jared Kushner invariably greeted each other with a kiss and that the… — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
Galling for left-wing activists and the mainstream media's bottom line - in its way as galling as Fox's daily agitprop - was… — Michael Wolff Bottom line 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 Business Copy Share Image
“Bannon, who styled himself as a kind of black hole of silence, had also become a sort of official black-hole voice, everybody’s… — Michael Wolff Black hole Copy Share Image
“PayPal cofounder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel—really the only significant Silicon Valley voice to support Trump—was warned by another billionaire and… — Michael Wolff Amazing work Copy Share Image
“This—insulting Donald Trump’s intelligence—was both the thing you could not do and the thing—drawing there-but-for-the-grace-of-God guffaws across the senior staff—that everybody was… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Then he imposed a set of new rules: nobody touch anything, especially not his toothbrush. (He had a longtime fear of being… — Michael Wolff Fear Copy Share Image
“Bob Woodward’s 1994 book, The Agenda, is a blow-by-blow account of the first eighteen months of the Clinton White House, most of… — Michael Wolff Time Copy Share Image
“One particularly profitable transaction with the president was to bring him new, ever harsher criticism of his chief strategist, or reports of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Murdoch believed he understood better than younger men, even seventy-year-old Trump, that political power was fleeting. (This was in fact the same… — Michael Wolff Political power Copy Share Image
“Bannon learned about the piece when fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci’s accusation that he sucked his own… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“While the Trump administration has made hostility to the press a virtual policy, it has also been more open to the media… — Michael Wolff Management Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.” — Michael Wolff Cruelties Copy Share Image
“Shortly after eight o’clock that evening, when the unexpected trend—Trump might actually win—seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Trump's election was dispiriting and confounding to most traditional political players - perhaps nobody more so than Murdoch. Still, Murdoch did what… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“By the second week of the Trump presidency, everybody in the White House seemed to be maintaining their own list of likely… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
As much as any other producer in the modern movie age, Harvey Weinstein has been a subject of media fascination. The grossness,… — Michael Wolff Age Copy Share Image
“This intelligence, it was rumored, consisted of spreadsheets kept by Susan Rice that listed the Trump team’s Russian contacts; borrowing a technique… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Kushner was the driver of the Trump doctrine. His test cases were China, Mexico, Canada, and Saudi Arabia. He offered each country… — Michael Wolff Motivation Copy Share Image
“Bannon’s presence on the council was just as much driven by the need to babysit the impetuous Flynn, prone to antagonizing almost… — Michael Wolff Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“If you fuck with the intel community they will figure out a way to get back at you and you’ll have two… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Having attained the unimaginable—bringing a fierce alt-right, antiliberal ethnopopulism into a central place in the White House—Bannon found himself face to face… — Michael Wolff Face to face Copy Share Image
“In this regard, Bannon was not so much an entrepreneur of vision or even business discipline, he was more simply following the… — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
“Convinced he knew the direction of success, keenly aware of his own age and finite opportunities, and—if for no clear reason—seeing himself… — Michael Wolff Success Copy Share Image
“For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to—“professor” was one of his bad words, and he was proud… — Michael Wolff Education Copy Share Image
There was, when I came to New York in the 1970s, no more profound or moving experience than MoMA, an almost perfect… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
