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Steve Bannon | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union

Published November 17, 2018 | Video Starts at 1:10:48

It's turning it to a meritocracy. It's getting rid of the chain migration, it's getting rid of other elements. It's turning it into a meritocracy. And I think that that is, I think it's the consensus of the American people. And I think the country has to. I think you have to go to some sort of meritocracy. So you're taking people in the country that the country has a direct need for. So I think, and here's the great thing about it, we're so far from getting that passed. (1:10:48–1:10:54)

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Asserts that there is a consensus among Americans in favor of a merit-based immigration system.

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“50% of our population can't put together $400 of cash in an emergency.”
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“$7 trillion on two wars that we didn't win and didn't accomplish our objectives.”
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“We're still spending $62 billion a year in Afghanistan.”
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“The United States spent $5.2 billion on the midterm elections.”
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“In 2014, ISIS had 8 million people under slavery.”
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“We just had 114 million people vote.”
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“Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Secretary of Treasury Hank Paulson...tell [President Bush] by 5 o'clock tonight, we need $1 trillion…”
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“We basically just flooded the zone with liquidity. We bailed out the Party of Davos.”
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“62% of the jobs that were created before President Trump got there were jobs that living wage are below living wage.”
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“The American working class, the American middle class, for the first time in our history, 70% felt the country was in decline.”
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“The rise of China, the deindustrialization of our country, all the shipping of the jobs to East Asia, the high value added manufacturing…”
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“The rise of China was a second law of thermodynamics. It was physics that you couldn't change.”
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“The real cost [of the defense budget] is a trillion dollars.”
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“We have a structural deficit going forward now of a trillion dollars.”
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“We're not trying to disengage from the world. We're not trying to be an isolationist.”
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“We don't want to protect it in Western Europe. That's why he keeps harping on the 2%.”
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“The problem is with radical Islamic Jihad is as big a problem for you in your own countries as it is for us in the West.”
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“If war breaks out, war is going to break out in the South China Sea or the Persian Gulf.”
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“We're looking for allies, not protection. We're not an imperial power.”
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“It's a totalitarian regime with a geopolitical expansionist attitude of Mackinder and Mahan and Speakman and all of it.”
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“Is it really the Russians are the threat? Or is the threat what's happening in Sub Saharan Africa?”
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“We gotta draw down in Afghanistan, right? We can't force our culture.”
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“We should spend that money in Central America, in the Northern Triangle countries and, and in Mexico.”
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“The burden of [illegal immigration] goes on the Hispanic and black working class in those cities and it's in the southern states and it's…”
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“The working class in Texas, in New Mexico, in Arizona, principally Hispanic working class can't bear the burden of economic migration.”
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“We believe in the deconstruction [of the] administrative state.”
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“The ECB tried to stop a government from taking place in [Italy] 10 years.”
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“The Italian people living today didn't really create that debt.”
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“The left did that. The reason they took over the House of Representatives.”
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“They have no intention of letting you guys go. None, zero, zero.”
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“Not one [European leader] has ever mentioned destroying the EU. What they want is a reformed EU.”
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“The neo Confederates, the neo Nazis, the KKK have no place in our society.”
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“I'm the guy keeps saying Facebook should be broken up, Google should be broken up.”
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“Democracy's never been, never been more robust and vibrant in the United States.”
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“We're so far from getting that passed. That's going to be the next big debate.”
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