Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Steve Hilton - Page 2

These Wall Street types, they're not exactly the kind of people you want your children turning into. They're really not very smart. They're certainly not thoughtful or kind. They're often poorly-educated, mostly ignorant and always self-interested and greedy.

The Trump economy is fundamentally strong and delivering good jobs and higher earnings for the working Americans who suffered in the years of stagnation.

As far as I'm concerned, when the Queen, who we all love very much, is finished with her reign then Britain should go and stop being a banana republic as it is when we have the royal family and become a real republic.

I don't have a smart phone. I didn't have one when I arrived in the U.S., and somehow life has continued. I teach at Stanford University, I launched a tech company - miraculously, it all seems to work without a phone!

The left has become increasingly dogmatic on immigration. Any position short of supporting open borders is described as racist. That's nonsensical.

After Trump, it will be a different Republican party... and for American workers, families, and communities, that is fantastic news.

As I have consistently argued, leaving the E.U. needs to be accompanied by a strong set of pro-enterprise policies to counteract any disruption: cut corporate taxes to make the U.K. an attractive destination for business and investment.

Membership of the E.U. makes Britain literally ungovernable, in the sense that no administration elected by the people can govern the country.

Whatever else people knew about Donald Trump going into 2016, it was obvious he was strong. He said what he thought, no matter who it offended.

Bernie Sanders is a serious person with a lifetime of consistent campaigning on principle.

There's an ideological belief on the left that you should not use nonpartisan tools.

The biggest threat to our economy comes from the loony left economic policies of the Democrats, which would scare off investment and bring back stagnation.

Surely everyone can agree that immigration should be controlled.

The most important thing about a candidate is not their promises - those hardly ever get delivered anyway. It's about how they would respond to unpredictable future events. And that's about their character.

Brexit was, at its heart, about democracy and sovereignty.

We must not let the panicky Wall Street wheeler-dealers and the Trump-hating establishment state media talk us into a recession. We must keep the focus on the real economy, not the fake economy.

Most countries in the world are not in the E.U. I think Britain, the world's fifth largest economy, can cope with life outside.

Abolish the monarchy. That is my populist take.

Thinking back to my time in the U.K., before the election and then working in the British government, the thing that has really driven me is this idea of giving power to people and taking power out of the hands of those who try and grab it all for themselves.

I think the only way to actually move China in a positive direction is to disengage from China, to decouple our economy, our cultural ties, our sporting ties so that you put pressure on their regime.

People are really looking for greater sense of control of what happens in their lives, about the issues they really care about, and they feel that the political system doesn't necessarily deliver.

Crowdpac is what I'm passionate about. I want to see it develop and grow, and I'm not really thinking anything except a long-term future for this business - but more importantly, for what this business can do for the long-term future of America.

Elizabeth Warren never stops raising the alarm about climate change and raging about the billionaires.

There are a number of people who are not in the workforce who have given up looking for jobs, and that's the real economic crisis in America.

The entire debate around a 'No Deal' Brexit assigns a vastly overstated importance to the role of government in daily life.

I never understood how, when if so many businesses can make a profit delivering services and products to state education, you could not take it further and allow for-profit operators to run some schools. Most people care about good outcomes, not whether something is for-profit or not.

When Corbyn was elected, I found there was a lot to welcome there.

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

The best thing America can do to put the Middle East on a path that leads to more democracy, less terrorism, human rights and economic growth is to get the hell out of there while showing an absolute crystal clear determination to defend American interests with force whenever they are threatened.

I think that Corbyn's success, just as the success of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, is a reflection of this frustration that people have that whatever they do, in terms of voting for different parties, nothing much seems to change.

This is the Trump revolution. Pragmatic. Non-ideological. He approaches issues as a businessman. It's a revolution in ideas and it goes way beyond foreign policy.

The West's involvement in the Middle East has been a disaster from the start... and finally, with President Trump, America is in a position to bring it to an end.

Kamala Harris is a serious person who as California attorney general tried to tackle tough social problems in a way that most conservatives would support.

I think what people are really crying out for is simple information they can trust when they're bombarded by attack ads, fundraising pitchers and all sort of comment and opinion all over the place increasingly.

I don't really care much about what the top one per cent earn. The gap we ought to care about in wealth is between the middle and the bottom.

Rudy Giuliani was a great mayor and a great leader, but he has turned into an unmitigated - and now, it seems, unethical - disaster.

It's a human thing to want to spend time with people you know well.

Trump makes really, really powerful arguments, for example in relation to healthcare. He talks about the cartels and the concentration of power and the health insurance companies effectively having monopolies and ripping people off.

Leaving the E.U. enables the U.K. to be more engaged with the global economy, not just the European economy.

Even when they are trying to deceive the voters, the Democrats are incompetent.