https://minutesof.com/on/politics/ Everyone on the record about politics: 15 verbatim quotes from 7 people, May 2020 to August 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link to… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:09 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/cbcbe590-68c1-4676-a18c-11ebcd9ab8c6/ https://minutesof.com/q/cbcbe590-68c1-4676-a18c-11ebcd9ab8c6/ “prime minister Carney Carney rose to power on an anti American, anti Trump platform. I believe he was more than 20 points behind,” — Scott Bessent, Fox Business Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:24:48 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/a82447a5-4265-41ce-ab1d-78211814af95/ https://minutesof.com/q/a82447a5-4265-41ce-ab1d-78211814af95/ “the previous or departing DDA, that's the head of the operational bid of the CIA, I think it was called Tom Sylvester, who should have finished his career in London has been denied the job and has retired because it wasn't clear that he was a sort of uncritical mega Republican supporter.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Bloomberg Podcasts Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:50:30 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/3409884c-73ec-4a3b-b0a3-68ffe1958f41/ https://minutesof.com/q/3409884c-73ec-4a3b-b0a3-68ffe1958f41/ “I think rather shockingly, been a purge of senior officers on the basis of the degree of their loyalty to mega republicanism.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Bloomberg Podcasts Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:50:30 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/8a4635de-b463-459c-8b46-6ecc86a8af85/ https://minutesof.com/q/8a4635de-b463-459c-8b46-6ecc86a8af85/ “And Silicon Valley kind of woke up to the fact that the government can play an outsized role in influencing, affecting how we might be able to operate and do business.” — David Friedberg, Suffiyan Malik Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:34:36 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/081af209-c57d-43bc-bc15-1c8550a081fe/ https://minutesof.com/q/081af209-c57d-43bc-bc15-1c8550a081fe/ “And under the Biden years, I think is when Silicon Valley really felt like it came under attack.” — David Friedberg, Suffiyan Malik Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:34:36 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/08b118a0-09ac-4a7d-b1da-a6c8c2ba4c32/ https://minutesof.com/q/08b118a0-09ac-4a7d-b1da-a6c8c2ba4c32/ “And it seems obvious to me that, like, any party that wants to win should just become the anti AI party. Because life as we know it is changing.” — Dylan Patel, Latent Space Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:15:18 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/1f44ed11-fa18-4e3f-add1-e46cb3ee2f10/ https://minutesof.com/q/1f44ed11-fa18-4e3f-add1-e46cb3ee2f10/ “It's all been a big hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats and some stupid Republicans.” — Howard Lutnick, ABC News Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:10:01 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/1d421ebe-4a6e-4f86-a6f4-41fdeff1335a/ https://minutesof.com/q/1d421ebe-4a6e-4f86-a6f4-41fdeff1335a/ “But that's why I think that the speaker and the White House are moving at lightning speed. They know this can't drift into the summer or fall, or you run the risk of starting 2026.” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:00:04 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/d35227b0-45f5-453a-8a61-4dda40db5dbb/ https://minutesof.com/q/d35227b0-45f5-453a-8a61-4dda40db5dbb/ “Right? I do hear things around key policy areas that impact entrepreneurship that people care deeply about.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:00:00 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/33429ae3-b84a-475a-85d3-109662f978af/ https://minutesof.com/q/33429ae3-b84a-475a-85d3-109662f978af/ “That's how people get elected in a democracy. They go to the voters, they say, here's what I'm going to give you.” — David Friedberg, Tom Bilyeu Tue, 02 Jul 2024 13:00:38 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/43038c3e-931c-4be1-8516-0d5d485626b8/ https://minutesof.com/q/43038c3e-931c-4be1-8516-0d5d485626b8/ “The more people hang around Washington for a very long period of time, they just learn how to influence it.” — Bill Gurley, Invest Like the Best Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:00:00 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/9102e471-8ce1-4c9d-8fa0-bf7bfb5c44d8/ https://minutesof.com/q/9102e471-8ce1-4c9d-8fa0-bf7bfb5c44d8/ “Historically, there's never been a coup in Russia. There have been revolutions, there haven't been coups.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, Hoover Institution Wed, 06 Jul 2022 20:21:01 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/aefd1e30-b951-4afc-b3a6-57c1972235c8/ https://minutesof.com/q/aefd1e30-b951-4afc-b3a6-57c1972235c8/ “It's all politics and social behavior. It has nothing to do with science. Like, after nine eleven, there were no more serious, like, terrorist attacks on The United States, but our fucking lives changed dramatically.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sat, 19 Sep 2020 04:41:45 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/f35f6880-d696-458c-82a5-60cc73dc406d/ https://minutesof.com/q/f35f6880-d696-458c-82a5-60cc73dc406d/ “Trump is incredible at pointing a finger at some third party and saying that's the enemy. I'm the guy who's gonna go defeat him for a year.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Sat, 20 Jun 2020 01:15:25 +0000 politics https://minutesof.com/q/8f446ea1-f874-4098-8af3-c8a6ffe17535/ https://minutesof.com/q/8f446ea1-f874-4098-8af3-c8a6ffe17535/ “So, you know, where I come out on this thing is that I think we should end lockdowns but wear masks, and it's very hard to find anybody, you know, in the political spectrum who agrees with that because, you know, one side wants to keep lockdowns going indefinitely and the other doesn't want us to wear masks.” — David Friedberg, All-In Podcast Thu, 21 May 2020 05:18:18 +0000 politics