The Apple imperative is to build a system that is 100 per cent resistant to any government warrant. The data on your iPhone, no matter how swarmy, corrupt, or dangerous you are, is supposedly safe. That’s also the proposition of Panamanian banking laws. Michael Wolff Read Quote
With obvious irony, many of the left-leaning privacy advocates who might cheer Apple’s stand against the government’s intrusion into its system, are now, as transparency advocates, on the side of the leakers of the Panama Papers. Michael Wolff Read Quote
Rusbridger had risen at the Guardian through the years when it not only had the support and fail-safe mechanism of the Scott Trust, but guaranteed operating income from public-service advertising. Nobody had to sell anything. Michael Wolff Read Quote
Guns in America have an atavistic force. Possessing them, or the act of not possessing them, is an identity that seems to pass from father to son. Michael Wolff Read Quote
Trump loves the media. Trump understands the power it has and, accordingly, loves the people who have media power. Michael Wolff Read Quote
One of the annoyances of working for The Guardian is that, obsessed as the organisation is with its digital and social media presence and its own sense of singular importance, editors would militantly try to edit your tweets. Michael Wolff Read Quote
I have never heard the word brand used so often as I did around The Guardian. Brand was the magical word, particularly as it was uttered by Alan Rusbridger, that would transform the paper and the goal that everyone was working toward. Michael Wolff Read Quote
The Clintons are one of the most closed political organisations operating in America today. It is a kind of secret society. Michael Wolff Read Quote
One of the frustrations of the Republicans is that they have been mostly unsuccessful in equating the word Clinton with Mafia, which, to them, seems so head-smackingly obvious. Michael Wolff Read Quote
