Nov 27, 1957 -
american media executive, political strategist, and former investment banker
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The United States of America is not the Russian-speaking eastern border of Ukraine. The real national security interests of the United States are the border in the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas!
The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election. That\'s a brutal fact we have to face.
I totally respect the pope, and I totally respect the Catholic bishops and cardinals on doctrine.
I think Mitch McConnell and, to a degree, Paul Ryan - they do not want Donald Trump\'s populist, economic nationalist agenda to be implemented. It\'s very obvious.
Donald Trump has a grasp on what\'s important and what\'s marginalia.
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.
Trump is a product of a seething populism and nationalism that is the driving political force.
It\'s a very unpleasant topic. But we are in an outright war against jihadist Islamic fascism. And this war is, is, I think, metastasizing, almost far quicker than governments can handle it... We have Boko Haram and other groups that will eventually partner with ISIS in this global war.
In the White House, I had influence. At Breitbart, I had power.
The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That\'s how you win elections.
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.
I think that most people in the Middle East, at least 50%, believe in being sharia-compliant. If you\'re sharia-compliant or want to impose sharia law, the United States is the wrong place for you.
The media here is the opposition party. They don\'t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
As the Executive Chairman of \'Breitbart News\' with a long run in business and finance, I can tell you, it\'s hard to run a company that is infinitesimally smaller than Fox; it takes a steady and experienced hand.
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.
We\'re at economic war with China. It\'s in all their literature. They\'re not shy about saying what they\'re doing.
The American television industry is a Darwinian environment where success is usually measured in inches, not yards. That is, for most TV media, audiences have gotten so small that one measures \'victories\' in tenths of a point - as in, a 2.2 percent share is a great leap over a 2.1 percent share.
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.
Breitbart is the most pro-Israel site in the United States of America.
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.
Here\'s the problem of the Democratic Party... There\'s no Breitbart. The problem in the Democratic Party? They haven\'t had a civil war.
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.
Our vision - Andrew\'s vision - was always to build a global, center-right, populist, anti-establishment news site.
I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I\'d never tip my hand to the other side.
Critics say that Fox News leans right, but the truth is, it\'s more centrist - it just looks right-wing in comparison to the other news outlets.
Ethno-nationalism - it\'s losers. It\'s a fringe element. I think the media plays it up too much, and we gotta help crush it, you know, eh, help crush it more.
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.\' Steve Bannon This accumulated debt at all levels of our society poses an immediate existential threat to America. Now unlike the manufactured crises of global warming and healthcare, this is a true crisis. This crisis threatens the very sovereignty of our country.
With \'Clinton Cash,\' we never really broke a story.
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.
Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.