Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Hilton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British businessman Steve Hilton.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Steve Hilton

Stephen Glenn Charles Hilton is a British political commentator and former political adviser. He served as director of strategy for the British Prime Minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2012. Since 2017, Hilton has hosted The Next Revolution, a weekly current affairs show for Fox News. He is a proponent of what he calls "positive populism" and a vocal supporter of former U.S. President Donald Trump. He was a co-founder of Crowdpac, but stepped down as CEO in 2018 due to conflicting values with the company.

There has been this slightly naive and perhaps arrogant view that technology can completely reinvent the political system and the way that government and politics works, which is ridiculous.
What's going on for half the country? Who's lost out? The victims of elitist agenda; standing up for them, being a voice for them. That's the idea behind positive populism, that's what drives the content.
Straight out of college, I worked at the Conservative Party but that was just a couple of years. — © Steve Hilton
Straight out of college, I worked at the Conservative Party but that was just a couple of years.
One of the central planks of China's stated plan for world domination is their Belt and Road Initiative, which makes countries around the world dependent on China for vital infrastructure.
A lot of the foundational philosophical approaches of tech leaders are actually all about decentralization of power.
My old boss, former British prime minister David Cameron, thought Obama was one of the most narcissistic, self-absorbed people he'd ever dealt with.
With President Trump, we see income growth in states like Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Florida - wing states that went to Trump in 2016 because he promised not to forget about them, like the establishment had done for decades. And their trust in President Trump quite literally paid off as they saw their incomes rise.
My parents are Hungarian.
In the E.U., the initiation of policy comes from the European Commission - not the European parliament, the European Commission, an appointed body; a committee of 27 countries where everything is haggled away.
You know, putting power in people's hands was the central idea of the conservative platform. And so, to me, the E.U. was the direct opposite of that, and totally inconsistent.
I listen to NPR a lot. And I can tell you that Mary Louise Kelly is one of the very few hosts on there who actually seems fair and is not totally biased against President Trump.
I'd love to have Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump together. How amazing would that be?
On issue after issue, yes, Trump is barging in. Yes, he is throwing out the old playbook. It's called change, and unlike Obama, who talked endlessly about change, President Trump is actually delivering it.
Just as we ban smoking and drinking for under 16, because we want to shield young people from their harmful effects, we should do the same for smartphones. — © Steve Hilton
Just as we ban smoking and drinking for under 16, because we want to shield young people from their harmful effects, we should do the same for smartphones.
Forget about war or disease or poverty. The apocalypse is when America's elected president is no longer supervised by the unelected ruling establishment.
What I love about California is this attitude of being supportive and positive about things. When you tell someone your idea, the answer is: 'Great, how can I help?' not 'Well that's not going to work.'
Look, I'm not expecting the establishment to suddenly open their arms to Donald Trump. But considering their own role in creating the long-term challenges that this president is now addressing, could they just show a little humility before embarking on their next Trump-hating rant?
I'm an unelected adviser. I can't insist on my way.
I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.
The people who typically tell the story of what's going on in America are from the booming parts of America. The presentation of issues is colored by that.
Establishment idiots say the Trump tax cuts only helped the rich. Don't they understand anything about economics?
I am the host of 'The Next Revolution' on Fox News.
What typically happens in government is the exact opposite of how things should work.
The Democrats are up to their necks in foreign meddling. Nancy Pelosi took money from Ukraine lobbyists. Chuck Schumer took money from Saudi Arabia and Mexico.
It's hard to pin me down because I'm a bit of Bernie Sanders, a bit of Rand Paul, bit of John Kasich.
On Russia, President Trump reverses the weakness of Obama, who turned a blind eye as Putin marched into Crimea and Ukraine by hitting Putin where it hurts - on energy.
Factories are often at the heart of a community.
In America, economic, cultural and political power is dispersed. In the U.K., centralisation is a gift to the vested interests.
I think much of the media is decadent in the sense that the people who are producing the coverage, they themselves live very comfortable lives.
People have described my proposal to ban smartphones for kids as mad, but why would we want children to have unsupervised access to the Internet? I predict most of my 'far-out' ideas will be the norm before long.
Mayors are accountable in the way a council is not. Who can name their local councillor?
China never had good intentions. Since the late 1980s, its stated aim has been world domination, technologically and militarily.
Obama never listened to anyone, always thought he was smarter than every expert in the room, and treated every meeting as an opportunity to lecture everyone else. This led to real-world disasters, like Syria and the rise of Isis.
Winston Churchill famously said that meeting jaw-to-jaw is better than war. With Trump, the strategy seems to be jobs jobs jobs - at home and abroad.
You can do business with America or the authoritarian dictators of Beijing, who oppress their own people, put millions of Muslims in concentration camps, and are rolling out a new and insidious colonialism around the world with their rapacious belt and road infrastructure program. Which side are you on, Britain? Canada? The EU? You choose.
It's the smartphone that has turned adults and children alike into tech-addicted zombies, dumbly swiping and jabbing at their screens, oblivious to the world around them.
A lot of people are driven by an interest by one particular issue or a small number of specific issues rather than a candidate or a party or something broader.
What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political. — © Steve Hilton
What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political.
For years we've had leaders who promised to end America's costly wars, only to cave in to the establishment view.
The Democrats' obsession with scandal is out of touch and decadent. People want substance, not scandal.
Most parents don't want their kids to have smartphones in the first place. But parents worry about the social stigma of their child being the only one without a phone.
For the next generation, focused on the future, the E.U. is as weird and old-fashioned as having a landline.
In any discussion of technology, you hear the same argument: You can't turn the clock back and you can't put the genie back in the bottle. Maybe not. But there are steps we can take to limit the social harm caused by this industry, just like we do with others.
The idea that Donald Trump committed an abuse of power by bringing politics into a foreign relationship is a joke. They all do it. Trump is just more open about it.
Any reasonable person looking at the policy results... the substance... the facts would agree that the Trump presidency is one of the most successful in American history.
The Committee to Save America. Have you ever heard anything more smug, more pompous but - most importantly - more anti-democratic? Because it turns out that the Committee to Save America was really the Committee to Save the American Establishment.
President Trump is trying to avoid war through economic pressure. Our so-called allies are undermining that pressure and in the process making war more likely.
You see it with Brexit, you see it in Donald Trump's election, you see it with the fact that neither of the main parties ended up in the final round of the French presidential election, you see it with the Italian referendum being defeated, you see it in a lot of ways - the political revolution.
I do not own a cellphone; I do not use a cellphone. I do not have a phone. No. Phone. Not even an old-fashioned dumb one. Nothing. — © Steve Hilton
I do not own a cellphone; I do not use a cellphone. I do not have a phone. No. Phone. Not even an old-fashioned dumb one. Nothing.
What's interesting is that you've got a lot of overlap between supporters of different parties and different candidates who feel regardless of who's been in power, the rich have got richer and half the country's got poorer.
In the spring of 2012, I moved to the San Francisco bay area with my wife and two young sons.
For decades, without so much as a peep from the Trump-hating establishment, China manipulated its currency and stole American technology.
With President Trump, we've seen the lowest ever African-American and Hispanic unemployment.
President Trump is the first western leader in 50 years to stand up to China.
I was on my bike, cycling to Stanford, and it struck me that a week had gone by without my having a phone. And everything was just fine. Better than fine, actually. I felt more relaxed, carefree, happier.
Joe Biden is compromised by China. He has taken billions of dollars from the Chinese government in the form of payments to his son's businesses.
I don't think for one second anyone believes the 'Washington Post' and 'New York Times' are anything but aggressively against Trump.
Most of the time, I get around perfectly well on my bike and public transportation, even in spite of the Bay Area's almost comically shambolic system.
We didn't move here so I could save American democracy. But I've embraced it with the zeal of a convert.
In business, there's a saying: 'Disagree and commit.' It means that everyone should speak up before a decision is made. But once the boss has decided, you all get behind it to make it happen.
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