No, because he would have a nightmare on his hands in politics. It's very, very different in politics, Ana, than in business, if Jeff Sessions was the general counsel for the Trump Organization, Trump Organization's a totally different set of personnel decisions than if Jeff Sessions is Jeff Sessions Cabinet member, Jeff Sessions, has a ton of friends in the Senate.

Anthony Scaramucci

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There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.

Anthony Scaramucci

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Ed Koch had the best line: if you agree with me nine out of twelve times, you should vote for me. If you agree with me twelve out of twelve times, you should find a psychiatrist.

Anthony Scaramucci

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As you know from the Italian expression, the fish stinks from the head down. What I can tell you two fish that don't stink, okay, and that's me and the President.

Anthony Scaramucci

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The President of the United States again, whether you guys like the guy, you dislike the guy, he's the smartest person that I've ever worked for. So let Vanity Fair write about that, I honestly don't care. He has intuition, he has judgement and he has a temperament in a way that I have never seen.

Anthony Scaramucci

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You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

Anthony Scaramucci

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It's better for the United States and better for the world to have the U.S. be energy independent. Have us have clean air and clean water and protect the environment for future generations of Americans. All of that makes sense.

Anthony Scaramucci

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Donald Trump has built a super successful business. He's an effective organizer. He's an effective execution-oriented executive. He has the right political personality to get on with people in a way that'll surprise people. He will cut deals in a way that are more favorable for America than what establishment politicians have done.

Anthony Scaramucci

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President Trump is not a representative of the political establishment class. And so for whatever reason, people have made a decision that they want to eject him. It's almost like he's opened up the door now for America's CEOs and America's billionaires to enter the Washington political system.

Anthony Scaramucci

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You have to take calculated risks in life.

Anthony Scaramucci

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You don't want the United States to become South America, where you have a super collection of rich people at the tippy-top of society, they are surrounded by barbed wire living in McMansions with security guards, and the rest of the society is suffering, and you've got a broken educational system and a broken government.

Anthony Scaramucci

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The lifeblood of the economy is that the banking community is a circulatory system for American capitalism.

Anthony Scaramucci

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I would prefer to let the president make the decisions that the president needs to make.

Anthony Scaramucci

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Let me give you really bad news, and I'm sure people will demonize me for saying this: the rich are always gonna be with us. They will always be with us. There are rich people in Cuba. There are rich people in Venezuela. You pick the policies, and the rich are gonna figure it out. They're always gonna be rich.

Anthony Scaramucci

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I want the American people to focus on is that we can generate a tremendous amount of energy revenues as result of new taxes coming off of the energy that's underneath the ground here in the United States.

Anthony Scaramucci

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Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.

Anthony Scaramucci

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I do think that there is pressure in various constituencies to reject the president.

Anthony Scaramucci

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I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

Anthony Scaramucci

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The great irony of executive compensation is, if you pay your employees more, you're gonna create more demand for your goods and services! Which is gonna lead to more executive compensation than if you pay your employees less and try to take all the cream off of the top.

Anthony Scaramucci

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I'm not a typical Republican. I am a Republican, I wear the Republican jersey, I've been a Republican my whole life. My dad was a Republican, which is interesting because he was in a union early on. The Republican party was very strong in the area that I grew up in. So I'm a loyalist.

Anthony Scaramucci

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I'm a straight-talking person. Did I make mistakes, absolutely. But I enjoy being a straight-up guy today and in the future.

Anthony Scaramucci

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