“the firing of FBI director James Comey may be the most consequential move ever made by a modern president acting entirely on… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“That was almost his appeal: he was what he was. Twinkle in his eye, larceny in his soul.” — Michael Wolff Larceny Copy Share Image
“You could hardly find an entity more at odds with military discipline than a Trump organization.” — Michael Wolff Discipline Copy Share Image
“he lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese),” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The Snowden story, which won the Guardiana Pulitzer Prize, became the realisation of Rusbridger's dream of a brand-building, left-wing-uniting, global and viral… — Michael Wolff Dream Copy Share Image
If you run for president and lose, you promote yourself into all sorts of more lucrative, possibly more influential and surely more… — Michael Wolff Fun 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 Job Copy Share Image
“It certainly is an odd circumstance if you live your life without regard for being elected and then get elected—and quite an… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Corbyn and Trump don't seem to have anything in common except the assumption on the part of anyone subscribing at any level… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Brexit and Trump are a generational revenge. This may partly be against millennial certainty and superiority, and, indeed, ageism; and it may… — Michael Wolff Ageism Copy Share Image
Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to… — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
“The campaign staff, now suddenly in a position to snag West Wing jobs—career- and history-making jobs—had to see this odd, difficult, even… — Michael Wolff West wing Copy Share Image
“Bannon invariably found some reason to study papers in the corner and then to have a last word; Priebus kept his eye… — 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
The emerging notion of the Eighties was that publicity was a currency. The old view was that if you had a currency… — Michael Wolff Attention Copy Share Image
“In early February, an Obama administration lawyer friendly with Sally Yates remarked with some relish and considerable accuracy: “It certainly is an… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Previous presidents, and not just Clinton, have of course lacked scruples. What was, to many of the people who knew Trump well,… — Michael Wolff Cause and effect Copy Share Image
“Here was, arguably, the central issue of the Trump presidency, informing every aspect of Trumpian policy and leadership: he didn’t process information… — Michael Wolff Attention span Copy Share Image
“On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway—Donald Trump’s campaign manager and a central, indeed starring, personality of Trumpworld—settled into her… — Michael Wolff Management Copy Share Image
“But now there seemed to be a new understanding: Donald Trump believed he had vastly more power, authority, and control than in… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In practice, the new foreign policy, an effective Trump doctrine, was to reduce the board to three elements: powers we can work… — Michael Wolff Cold war Copy Share Image
“Christie had sent Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, to jail in 2005. Charlie Kushner, pursued by the feds for an income tax cheat,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Bill de Blasio, for his part, became the mayor of New York, surely the most powerful local political position in the nation,… — Michael Wolff Job Copy Share Image
“Theory 2: Trump was part of a less-than-blue-chip (much less) international business set, feeding off the rivers of dubious wealth that had… — Michael Wolff Business Copy Share Image
The more power you have, the more surely it will be taken from you before you are ready to give it up. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon finally arrived. Wearing a disheveled blazer, his signature pairing of two shirts,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Time spent with Trump on the campaign plane was often an epic dissing experience: everybody around him was an idiot.” — Michael Wolff Idiot Copy Share Image
“But most of the leaks, certainly the juiciest ones, were coming from the higher-ups—not to mention from the person occupying the topmost… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“They were all concerned that Trump did not understand what he was up against. That there was simply not enough method to… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“and the almost samizdat sharing, or gobsmacked retelling, of otherwise private and deep-background conversations” — Michael Wolff Communication Copy Share Image
“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.” — Michael Wolff Family Copy Share Image
“he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline—he could not even attempt to imitate decorum.” — Michael Wolff Decorum Copy Share Image
Being the governor of New York is a mighty job because of the city of New York. You would not want to… — Michael Wolff Being Copy Share Image
“He clearly did not understand that what conservative media elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down.” — Michael Wolff Liberal media Copy Share Image
“His senior staff largely dealt with these dark hours by agreeing with him, no matter what he said.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: “That’s some weird… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“said the president in his first week in the White House during a late-night call. “It’s all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Journalism has become a form of idealism. It is no longer, first and foremost, function, craft, service - it is mission. — Michael Wolff Goals Copy Share Image
