Political Adviser

🇺🇸Kellyanne Conway

Politics

b. 1967

"You can't appeal to us through our wombs, we're pro-life. The fetus beat us. We grew up with sonograms. We know life when we see it."

🇺🇸James Carville

Politics

b. 1944

"John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four."

🇺🇸Dick Morris

Politics

1947–2000

"No candidate can win a presidential race advocating gay marriage and opposing the military action in Iraq."

🇬🇧Bruce Hawker

Politics

b. 1955

"Bruce Hawker was a useful press secretary for a state premier a few years ago before becoming a lobbyist. Right now I am sure he has his hands full helping bail out a sinking Labor government with a recycled Kevin Rudd."

🇺🇸Richard Perle

Politics

b. 1941

"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces."

🇺🇸Joseph C. Wilson

Politics

1949–2019

"Interactive Graphic: Timeline of a Leak" in The New York Times"

🇺🇸Karl Rove

Politics

b. 1950

"At the end of the day, it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs. And trust me, when I use that name, I measure my words."

🇭🇺Sebastian Gorka

Military

b. 1970

"The NRA is the most important organization protecting our rights to defend ourselves and our democracy in America."

🇺🇸Steve Bannon

Business

b. 1953

"Pennsylvania, if you don't win this now, not only will you never win again — you don't deserve to win again."

🇺🇸Sean Spicer

Politics

b. 1971

"So he has ensured that while he has respect for the Australian people, respect for Prime Minister Trumble..."

🇺🇸Naomi Wolf

Journalism

b. 1962

"The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance."

🇺🇸George Stephanopoulos

Politics

b. 1961

"The President has kept all the promises he intended to keep."

🇺🇸Katrina Pierson

Politics

b. 1976

"Perfect Obama's dad born in Africa, Mitt Romney's dad born in Mexico. Any pure breeds left?"

🇺🇸Dennis Ross

Politics

b. 1948

"I mean, they have a guy like Dennis Ross at the White House now, who’s always been a part of the Israel lobby. They put him in charge of the whole Muslim world."

🇬🇧Charles Leadbeater

Literature

b. 1959

"Cited in: Kishore Mahbubani, The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East, 2010, p. 69"

🇺🇸David Sirota

Literature

b. 1975

"Personal opinion: I think it would be good for there to be a presidential debate in which the questions don’t come only from millionaires paid by billionaires."