Roger Stone Quotes
If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.
Stone, Roger. Stone's Rules: How to Win at Politics, Business, and Style. Skyhorse Publishing, 2018.
In the specific case, Stone had proposed that some of the conservative counties of Southern California secede from California and become a 51st state. Such an arrangement might fine for the rest of California many of whom would love to have the most conservative elements out of policy making for the rest of the state. However, others outside of California would not be very comfortable with every area on any state were to use this device to get two of their own Senators. Every major city would also love to have two senators of its own and would want to secede. There are large population counties which might want the same.
Roger Jason Stone is an American conservative political consultant and lobbyist. Since the 1970s, Stone has worked on the campaigns of Republican politicians, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. In addition to frequently serving as a campaign adviser, Stone was a political lobbyist. In 1980, he co-founded a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm with Paul Manafort and Charles R. Black Jr. The firm recruited Peter G. Kelly and was renamed Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly in 1984.:124 During the 1980s, BMSK became a top lobbying firm by leveraging its White House connections to attract high-paying clients including U.S. corporations and trade associations, as well as foreign governments. By 1990, it was one of the leading lobbyists for American companies and foreign organizations.:125
