I was on my bike, cycling to Stanford, and it struck me that a week had gone by without my having a phone. And everything was just fine. Better than fine, actually. I felt more relaxed, carefree, happier.
— Steve Hilton
For years we've had leaders who promised to end America's costly wars, only to cave in to the establishment view.
Forget about war or disease or poverty. The apocalypse is when America's elected president is no longer supervised by the unelected ruling establishment.
I'm an unelected adviser. I can't insist on my way.
My old boss, former British prime minister David Cameron, thought Obama was one of the most narcissistic, self-absorbed people he'd ever dealt with.
For decades, without so much as a peep from the Trump-hating establishment, China manipulated its currency and stole American technology.
The idea that Donald Trump committed an abuse of power by bringing politics into a foreign relationship is a joke. They all do it. Trump is just more open about it.
A lot of people are driven by an interest by one particular issue or a small number of specific issues rather than a candidate or a party or something broader.
Establishment idiots say the Trump tax cuts only helped the rich. Don't they understand anything about economics?
One of the central planks of China's stated plan for world domination is their Belt and Road Initiative, which makes countries around the world dependent on China for vital infrastructure.
Winston Churchill famously said that meeting jaw-to-jaw is better than war. With Trump, the strategy seems to be jobs jobs jobs - at home and abroad.
Joe Biden is compromised by China. He has taken billions of dollars from the Chinese government in the form of payments to his son's businesses.
We didn't move here so I could save American democracy. But I've embraced it with the zeal of a convert.
What I love about California is this attitude of being supportive and positive about things. When you tell someone your idea, the answer is: 'Great, how can I help?' not 'Well that's not going to work.'
What's interesting is that you've got a lot of overlap between supporters of different parties and different candidates who feel regardless of who's been in power, the rich have got richer and half the country's got poorer.
Straight out of college, I worked at the Conservative Party but that was just a couple of years.
What typically happens in government is the exact opposite of how things should work.
In the spring of 2012, I moved to the San Francisco bay area with my wife and two young sons.
In business, there's a saying: 'Disagree and commit.' It means that everyone should speak up before a decision is made. But once the boss has decided, you all get behind it to make it happen.
In the E.U., the initiation of policy comes from the European Commission - not the European parliament, the European Commission, an appointed body; a committee of 27 countries where everything is haggled away.
You see it with Brexit, you see it in Donald Trump's election, you see it with the fact that neither of the main parties ended up in the final round of the French presidential election, you see it with the Italian referendum being defeated, you see it in a lot of ways - the political revolution.
Look, I'm not expecting the establishment to suddenly open their arms to Donald Trump. But considering their own role in creating the long-term challenges that this president is now addressing, could they just show a little humility before embarking on their next Trump-hating rant?
The Democrats' obsession with scandal is out of touch and decadent. People want substance, not scandal.
The Democrats are up to their necks in foreign meddling. Nancy Pelosi took money from Ukraine lobbyists. Chuck Schumer took money from Saudi Arabia and Mexico.
There has been this slightly naive and perhaps arrogant view that technology can completely reinvent the political system and the way that government and politics works, which is ridiculous.
With President Trump, we see income growth in states like Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, Florida - wing states that went to Trump in 2016 because he promised not to forget about them, like the establishment had done for decades. And their trust in President Trump quite literally paid off as they saw their incomes rise.
On Russia, President Trump reverses the weakness of Obama, who turned a blind eye as Putin marched into Crimea and Ukraine by hitting Putin where it hurts - on energy.
President Trump is the first western leader in 50 years to stand up to China.
China never had good intentions. Since the late 1980s, its stated aim has been world domination, technologically and militarily.
A lot of the foundational philosophical approaches of tech leaders are actually all about decentralization of power.
In America, economic, cultural and political power is dispersed. In the U.K., centralisation is a gift to the vested interests.
The people who typically tell the story of what's going on in America are from the booming parts of America. The presentation of issues is colored by that.
My parents are Hungarian.
It's hard to pin me down because I'm a bit of Bernie Sanders, a bit of Rand Paul, bit of John Kasich.
I do not own a cellphone; I do not use a cellphone. I do not have a phone. No. Phone. Not even an old-fashioned dumb one. Nothing.
The Committee to Save America. Have you ever heard anything more smug, more pompous but - most importantly - more anti-democratic? Because it turns out that the Committee to Save America was really the Committee to Save the American Establishment.
You know, putting power in people's hands was the central idea of the conservative platform. And so, to me, the E.U. was the direct opposite of that, and totally inconsistent.
Obama never listened to anyone, always thought he was smarter than every expert in the room, and treated every meeting as an opportunity to lecture everyone else. This led to real-world disasters, like Syria and the rise of Isis.
On issue after issue, yes, Trump is barging in. Yes, he is throwing out the old playbook. It's called change, and unlike Obama, who talked endlessly about change, President Trump is actually delivering it.
What's not OK is using government policy and taxpayer dollars to push for an investigation if the motivation is purely political.
I listen to NPR a lot. And I can tell you that Mary Louise Kelly is one of the very few hosts on there who actually seems fair and is not totally biased against President Trump.
Factories are often at the heart of a community.
With President Trump, we've seen the lowest ever African-American and Hispanic unemployment.
President Trump is trying to avoid war through economic pressure. Our so-called allies are undermining that pressure and in the process making war more likely.
You can do business with America or the authoritarian dictators of Beijing, who oppress their own people, put millions of Muslims in concentration camps, and are rolling out a new and insidious colonialism around the world with their rapacious belt and road infrastructure program. Which side are you on, Britain? Canada? The EU? You choose.
What's going on for half the country? Who's lost out? The victims of elitist agenda; standing up for them, being a voice for them. That's the idea behind positive populism, that's what drives the content.
Mayors are accountable in the way a council is not. Who can name their local councillor?
I think much of the media is decadent in the sense that the people who are producing the coverage, they themselves live very comfortable lives.
I don't think for one second anyone believes the 'Washington Post' and 'New York Times' are anything but aggressively against Trump.
I'd love to have Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump together. How amazing would that be?
