Cable television is basically now the business of former political professionals. Joe Scarborough, a former Florida Congressman, is a far more successful cable host than he ever was a politician. Michael Wolff Read Quote
If you are identified with certain opinions and an ability to express them, and if you can build yourself an audience, a partisan fan base – measured through social media – then you are an official opinionator, monetizable through books, television contracts and the speaking circuit. Michael Wolff Read Quote
Running for office, or suggesting you might, is no longer about being a politician but being an independent opinion or sensibility entrepreneur. You’re looking for an audience to identify with you. Rather than trying to convince a majority of the electorate, you’re looking to cull your particular following. Michael Wolff Read Quote
Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue. Michael Wolff Read Quote
It’s not implausible that Donald Trump could have been a successful President. Michael Wolff Read Quote
Donald Trump doesn’t necessarily stay mad for very long. He’s a transactional guy. If you can offer him something, he will take it. Or from a salesman’s point of view, if he’s not making the sale, you’re of no use to him. But if you suddenly come back into the showroom and are willing to buy, he’s willing to sell. Michael Wolff Read Quote
Politics, which really is about the art of expression, ought to be a logical profession for writers (it’s very hard to explain to politics- and policy-addicted people that language is the basis of all ideas – if you can’t say it, you can’t think it), instead of a refuge for lawyers and apparatchiks. Michael Wolff Read Quote
Before even getting to David Cameron’s father here’s a starting-point question about the Panama Papers: how is the desire to break the anonymity of Panama banking secrecy different from the FBI’s interest in breaking Apple’s encryption of the iPhone? Michael Wolff Read Quote
