“The truth is, over this period that I witnessed, this seven or eight months, they all came to the conclusion gradually at first, then faster and faster, that something was unbelievably amiss here. That this was more peculiar than they ever imagined it could be.”— Michael Wolff, washingtonexaminer.com
“Most presidential candidates spend their entire careers, if not their lives from adolescence, preparing for the role. They rise up the ladder of elected offices, perfect a public face, and prepare themselves to win and to govern. The Trump calculation, quite a conscious one, was different. The candi…”— Michael Wolff, nymag.com
“I would have been perfectly happy to have written a contrarian book about how interesting and potentially hopeful and novel Trump-as-president was. I would have written a positive Trump book. And I thought it would be a fun thing to do—an audacious way to look at the world. But then I got in there a…”— Michael Wolff, hollywoodreporter.com
“Well, you don't get the feeling that he has thought of anything other than himself at any given time. Certainly he was very open with me, accessible with me, and then he started to talk. Did he ever listen to me for one second? I never got that feeling. He just talks at you. ‘Blah blah blah blah bla…”— Michael Wolff, hollywoodreporter.com
“And at the end, they had to look at Donald Trump and say, 'No, this is a man who can't function in his job as president.' He may have been elected president, but that does not turn him into president.”— Michael Wolff, washingtonexaminer.com
“I hear that the president is very angry, or, let me be precise: I hear that he is truly bouncing off the walls.”— Michael Wolff, hollywoodreporter.com
“I think he has many acts left in him. I would put my money on Steve Bannon right now instead of Donald Trump.”— Michael Wolff, npr.org
“Steve Bannon is responsible for Donald Trump's election. When Steve joined the campaign in August, they were finished—even Trump acknowledged they were finished.”— Michael Wolff, npr.org
“The media's holy grail is, as it's been for much of the campaign, about what will stick. Of the myriad likely damaging possibilities, which one will be so prima facie damaging (pay no attention to the many instances that many people already thought were, or would be) or so shocking and insulting to…”— Michael Wolff, washingtonpost.com
“This was an organization that was almost, I'd say, in a real sense shattered from the first day.”— Michael Wolff, npr.org
“Each are trying to use their particular leverage and each has leverage with the president. Also, in order to increase their leverage with the president, they were trying to kill each other. In some nearly literal sense, kill each other. Certainly, Jared Kushner believed that Steve Bannon was leaking…”— Michael Wolff, npr.org
“100 percent of the people around [Donald Trump]…senior advisers, family members, every single one of them, questions his intelligence and fitness for office.”— Michael Wolff, nbcnews.com
“I think the two fundamental issues were that Donald Trump doesn't read anything. Let me accent that—anything. Nothing. If you're working for the president of the United States, that's an odd position because how do you get information to him? That's already a major hurdle. But then there's the secon…”— Michael Wolff, npr.org
“I will tell you the one description that everyone gave, everyone has in common: They all say he is like a child. And what they mean by that is, he has a need for immediate gratification. It is all about him.”— Michael Wolff, nbcnews.com
“I am not a hit man. I’m someone who just found his way into this story of our time and just wanted to tell it as clearly as possible and with as much understanding as possible.”— Michael Wolff, npr.org
“My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than, perhaps, anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point.”— Michael Wolff, nbcnews.com
“Trump has repeatedly called for drug-price reform. Last year he called out big pharma for “getting away with murder.” Yet by nominating Azar he just sent a clear message to industry. It’s open season.”— James Elliott, thenation.com
“President Donald Trump somehow made time to mock Asian leaders, who hosted him on his recent trip, during a speech meant to promote GOP tax bills moving through Congress.”— Kimberley Yam, huffingtonpost.com
“Monsters have been after me for years and years trying to do everything possible to eradicate me from this Earth and I will not go.”— Rose McGowan, abcnews.go.com