Steve Bannon

The modern economics of the newsroom don't support big investigative reporting staffs.

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.

I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.

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.

We don't believe there is a functional conservative party in this country, and we certainly don't think the Republican Party is that.

We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class.

Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.

There's nothing to the Russia investigation.

Mitch McConnell, I'm going to light him up.

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.

When you side with a man, you side with him.

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.

I became a huge Reagan admirer.

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.

I totally respect the pope, and I totally respect the Catholic bishops and cardinals on doctrine.

With 'Clinton Cash,' we never really broke a story.

We hire people who are freaks. They don't have social lives.

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 don't think people realize how life-altering running for president is.

I'm a commercial filmmaker.