Washington

“They sort of surgically removed Donald Trump while Thwarting the radical left's dream of total control in Washington. And what the electorate seems to be saying is they want the parties now to work together instead of voting for extreme ideology.”

“80% of Americans, the entire bipartisan class in Washington of both parties, are essentially unified in support of the narrative that Antonio believes, in my opinion, with great sincerity.”

“They're going to drop the hammer because their constituents, some grandma and grandpa, or some people put their college education to this and lost everything.”

“I think this is the biggest bait and switch that Washington, the central government has ever tried to pull on us.”

“So you're going to replace permissionless innovation with going to Washington to go through some approval process, and it will be the politically connected, it'll be the big donors who get their projects approved, and the next Mark Zuckerberg, who's trying to …”

“Again, this is going to replace permissionless innovation, which is what has defined the software industry and especially open source with the need to develop some connection or relationship and lobbying in Washington to go get your project approved.”

“It's a mistake To think whenever anybody makes a judgment that doesn't turn out right in Washington, that it's because they had some bad political motive and were playing politics, rather than they were using their best judgment and they turned out to be wrong…”

“I think that that's where we're headed, is we're going to have restraint imposed on us from the outside. It's not going to come from inside Washington.”

“This wave of AI is just becoming software. So we're going to take the one part of our economy that has been free market and relatively unregulated, which is software. It's like the last bastion of true entrepreneurial capitalism, and we're going to create a ne…”

“The amount of bipartisan support on, on both sides of the aisle in Washington is off the charts.”

“When we've had a bipartisan consensus in Washington for decades, that unfettered free trade is a good thing. No matter how big our trade deficits got, no matter how rich and powerful China got, no matter how unfair the trade practices got, no matter how many m…”

“Probably the bond market forces it on the politicians, forces it on Washington.”

“I do think that Washington in general, my party's definitely guilty of this, is too attached to all of the, like, structures that we have right now and the existing org charts and existing habits.”

“People making more than one million dollars a year will pay an extra 9.9% in tax starting in 2029.”

“So I suspect when you look back on this in 18 or 24 months, it'll be as bad or worse than California.”

“They're not getting the help that they need, and part of the reason they're not getting the help that they need is this hyper-partisanship in which California and Washington are fighting rhetorically and politically, and the people who are being hurt are the f…”

“Anthropic may pose is this company that's on the side of the angels, but they've hired a number of very seasoned brass knuckle political operatives in Washington and, you know, members of the Biden administration, Laura Loomer actually just had a piece today o…”

“In terms of the red capture agenda that you're seeing in Washington, I think where it's all leading to is an effort to ban open source models or open weight models.”