“We call ourselves ‘the Fight Club.’ You don’t come to us for warm and fuzzy. We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly ‘anti-’ the permanent political class. We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation. We hire people who are freaks. They don’t ha…”— Steve Bannon, washingtonpost.com
“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.”— Steve Bannon, cbsnews.com
“Here's the bottom line: Republicans didn't want to repeal Obamacare that badly. Obamacare was a useful tool for them. For years, they could use it to score short-term messaging victories. People are steamed about high premiums? We'll message on that today. People are angry about losing insurance cov…”— Philip Klein, washingtonexaminer.com
“The red carpet, of course, is here to hide the rivers of blood that will eventually pour down from the cornucopia, when Donald Trump, flanked by his two eunuchs, takes the stage. By eunuchs I mean Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus, who clearly checked their balls at the door this election.’”— Stephen Colbert, salon.com