Steve Hilton

“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.”

“I think that Corbyn's success, just as the success of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, is a reflection of this frustration that people have that whatever they do, in terms of voting for different parties, nothing much seems to change.”

“In America, economic, cultural and political power is dispersed. In the U.K., centralisation is a gift to the vested interests.”

“A lot of the foundational philosophical approaches of tech leaders are actually all about decentralization of power.”

“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?”

“People are really looking for greater sense of control of what happens in their lives, about the issues they really care about, and they feel that the political system doesn't necessarily deliver.”

“I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.”

“Factories are often at the heart of a community.”

“People have described my proposal to ban smartphones for kids as mad, but why would we want children to have unsupervised access to the Internet? I predict most of my 'far-out' ideas will be the norm before long.”

“I never understood how, when if so many businesses can make a profit delivering services and products to state education, you could not take it further and allow for-profit operators to run some schools. Most people care about good outcomes, not whether something is for-profit or not.”

“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.”

“It's the smartphone that has turned adults and children alike into tech-addicted zombies, dumbly swiping and jabbing at their screens, oblivious to the world around them.”

“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.”

“I don't think for one second anyone believes the 'Washington Post' and 'New York Times' are anything but aggressively against Trump.”

“Most countries in the world are not in the E.U. I think Britain, the world's fifth largest economy, can cope with life outside.”

“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.”

“We didn't move here so I could save American democracy. But I've embraced it with the zeal of a convert.”

“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.”

“Thinking back to my time in the U.K., before the election and then working in the British government, the thing that has really driven me is this idea of giving power to people and taking power out of the hands of those who try and grab it all for themselves.”

“Elizabeth Warren never stops raising the alarm about climate change and raging about the billionaires.”