Top 120 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Bannon

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American public servant Steve Bannon.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
Steve Bannon

Stephen Kevin Bannon is an American media executive, political strategist, and former investment banker. He served as the White House's chief strategist in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump during the first seven months of Trump's term. He is a former executive chairman of Breitbart News, and previously served on the board of the now-defunct data-analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.

My old firm, Goldman Sachs - traditionally, the best banks are leveraged 8:1. When we had the financial crisis in 2008, the investment banks were leveraged 35:1. Those rules had specifically been changed by a guy named Hank Paulson. He was secretary of Treasury.
The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.
Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy. — © Steve Bannon
Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.
I think anger is a good thing.
I've studied documentarians extensively to come up with my own in-house style. I'm a student of Michael Moore's films, of Eisenstein, Riefenstahl. Leave the politics aside, you have to learn from those past masters on how they were trying to communicate their ideas.
If you stay true to yourself and true to your vision and your own values, you can power through and make an impact on modern life.
The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia.
The solution to 'on-line harassment' is simple: women should log off.
A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.
There is a growing global anti-establishment revolt against the permanent political class at home and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Texas, to London, England.
We have a mantra. 'Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs'.
I can see this on Wall Street today - I can see this with the securitization of everything is that, everything is looked at as a securitization opportunity. People are looked at as commodities. I don't believe that our forefathers had that same belief.
That's one of the unintended consequences of the women's liberation movement - that, in fact, the women that would lead this country would be feminine, they would be pro-family, they would have husbands, they would love their children.
Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles. — © Steve Bannon
Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles.
This country is in a crisis. And if you're fighting to save this country, if you're fighting to take this country back, it's not going to be sunshine and patriots. It's going to be people who want to fight. I mean, Andrew Breitbart was all about the fight.
Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?
What built America's called the American system, from Hamilton to Polk to Henry Clay to Lincoln to the Roosevelts. A system of protection of our manufacturing, financial system that lends to manufacturers, OK, and the control of our borders.
This country's gonna be greater, more united, more powerful than it's ever been.
Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.
Without U.S. independence, North America would have remained a rural, non-industrial breadbasket. Blessed as it was with natural resources, agrarian North America would have supplied cotton and beef and lumber to industrial Britain. America would thus be more like Australia - a nice enough place to live, but no kind of world power.
Donald Trump's a fighter. Great counter puncher. Great counter puncher. He's a fighter.
We hire people who are freaks. They don't have social lives.
Mr. Mr. Mr. Trump... You've been in New York real estate and global real estate and the gaming industry and with politicians. You can't say, reasonably, that Ted Cruz is the biggest liar you've ever seen.
The longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.
Donald Trump has a grasp on what's important and what's marginalia.
I'm a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that's my goal, too.
I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.
I want China to stop appropriating our technology. China is, through forced technology transfer and through stealing our technology, but really forced technology transfer, is cutting out the beating heart of American innovation.
I'm the guy pushing a trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. With negative interest rates throughout the world, it's the greatest opportunity to rebuild everything. Shipyards, ironworks, get them all jacked up. We're just going to throw it up against the wall and see if it sticks.
Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.
The swamp is a business model. It's a successful business model.
The Tea Party in the United States' biggest fight is with the the Republican establishment, which is really a collection of crony capitalists that feel that they have a different set of rules of how they're going to comport themselves and how they're going to run things.
Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.
George Clooney, who is a moron, came here to Cannes and gave a press conference saying, 'Under no circumstances will Trump ever be president. Hillary Clinton will be the next president.' Well, we can't wait to make George Clooney eat his words.
Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.
What I find shocking is that there's this thought process that Hillary Clinton is going to be president of the United States, and to even think of Donald Trump is a joke.
'National Review' and 'The Weekly Standard' are both left-wing magazines, and I want to destroy them also.
The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections. — © Steve Bannon
The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.
After making the 'Occupy' movie, when you finish watching the film, you want to take a hot shower. You want to go home and shower because you've just spent an hour and fifteen minutes with the greasiest, dirtiest people you will ever see.
My suggestion and my recommendation is, to solve the problem in Korea, you need to solve that problem with China. It's a client state of China.
Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.
Our vision - Andrew's vision - was always to build a global, center-right, populist, anti-establishment news site.
I could not think higher of Governor Palin. She is a force of nature and has inspired a generation of women to really get actively involved in politics and, more importantly, take their culture back and take their country back.
Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of submission. Islam means submit.
Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.
Remember Circuit City? Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? Sports Authority? Once, all were billion-dollar companies - then gone in a moment. The fatal problem might be fraud or corruption, but more often, it's simply that management didn't see 'over the other side of the hill.'
There's a reason that male golfers don't compete against female golfers. They're in a league of their own, and it would end in tears. It's time to apply this logic to the online world.
I don't think people realize how life-altering running for president is.
I'm a commercial filmmaker. — © Steve Bannon
I'm a commercial filmmaker.
An elite is someone who's for themselves and not for the country.
Goldman in the '80s was like a priesthood, a monastic experience where you worked all the time but were incredibly dedicated to client services, to building and growing companies.
I turned on Wall Street for the same reason everybody else did: The American taxpayer was forced to cut mook deals to bail out guys who didn't deserve it.
Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system.
Are there some people that are white nationalists that are attracted to some of the philosophies of the alt-right? Maybe.
One of the things Goldman teaches you is, don't be the first guy through the door because you're going to get all the arrows.
The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced.
We don't believe there is a functional conservative party in this country, and we certainly don't think the Republican Party is that.
What you realize hanging out with investigative reporters is that, while they may be personally liberal, they don't let that get in the way of a good story.
I think that Putin and his cronies are really a kleptocracy, that are really an imperialist power that want to expand.
There is voter fraud. I know there is voter fraud.
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