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.
Steve Bannon
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.
Steve Bannon
Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power.
Steve Bannon
Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.
Steve Bannon
I’ve got a cure for mental health issue. Spank your children more.
Steve Bannon
The solution to ‘on-line harassment’ is simple: women should log off.
Steve Bannon
Are there some people that are white nationalists that are attracted to some of the philosophies of the alt-right? Maybe.
Steve Bannon
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.
Steve Bannon
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.
Steve Bannon
We have a mantra. ‘Facts get shares; opinions get shrugs’.
Steve Bannon
I’m not a white nationalist, I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist.
Steve Bannon
The globalists gutted the American working class and created a middle class in Asia.
Steve Bannon
Our definition of the alt-right is younger people who are anti-globalists, very nationalist, terribly anti-establishment.
Steve Bannon
I’m a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too.
Steve Bannon
Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that’s the only thing that will make them do their duty.
Steve Bannon
Our vision – Andrew’s vision – was always to build a global, center-right, populist, anti-establishment news site.
Steve Bannon
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.
Steve Bannon
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.
Steve Bannon
We hire people who are freaks. They don’t have social lives.
Steve Bannon
Planned Parenthood has amassed a Third Reich-style death count completely legally and while pocketing half a billion dollars a year to do so.
Steve Bannon
Given the hipness of transsexualism with people like Caitlyn Jenner and Jazz Jennings, there might be a third category, especially among children, and that is fashion.
Steve Bannon
Maybe some people are attracted to the alt-right that are homophobes, right? But that’s just like, there are certain elements of the progressive left and the hard left that attract certain element.
Steve Bannon
The media bubble is the ultimate symbol of what’s wrong with this country.
Steve Bannon
If ‘The New York Times’ didn’t exist, CNN and MSNBC would be a test pattern. ‘The Huffington Post’ and everything else is predicated on ‘The New York Times’. It’s a closed circle of information from which Hillary Clinton got all her information – and her confidence.
Steve Bannon
What Trump represents is a restoration – a restoration of true American capitalism.
Steve Bannon
A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.
Steve Bannon
Two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia.
Steve Bannon
We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly ‘anti-‘ the permanent political class.
Steve Bannon
We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.
Steve Bannon
I think anger is a good thing.
Steve Bannon
Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?
Steve Bannon
Not one criminal charge has ever been brought to any bank executive associated with the 2008 crisis. And in fact, it gets worse. No bonuses and none of their equity was taken.
Steve Bannon
I’m a very practical, pragmatic capitalist. I was trained at Goldman Sachs. I went to Harvard Business School. I was as hard-nosed a capitalist as you get. I specialized in media, in investing in media companies, and it’s a very, very tough environment.
Steve Bannon
I think the bailouts in 2008 were wrong. And I think, you look in hindsight, it was a lot of misinformation that was presented about the bailouts of the banks in the West.
Steve Bannon
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.
Steve Bannon
Trump is an entrepreneur.
Steve Bannon