Donald Trump Quotes

I just want to be fair. I want to be a firm and fair trader.

The problem is, we have leaders and negotiators that don't realize we have the power. And they're essentially incompetent. And we would be able to straighten out that thing.

China only did the biggest devaluation in 20 years, only for one reason. Because they could get away with it.

I will make great deals with China and they will like us more than they do now. You know they don't even like us.

We have deficits with everybody. Who do we have a positive with?

I ordered all of these sets [ from South Korea] and I'm thinking to myself, this is ridiculous. We don't even make televisions here [in U.S].

There are certain areas which ISIS has the oil and you take the oil, you keep it. You just go in and take it.

We cannot continue to be a policeman for the rest of the world.

We should be building a nation and it should be called the United States of America. We are spending all our money nation-building in other places and they don't even want us.

Now, with that being said, we cannot allow, we shouldn't have gone into Iraq.

I would have doubled up and tripled up the sanctions [on Iran] and made a good deal.

We've imposed a hiring freeze on non-essential federal workers. We've imposed a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations.

We've issued a game-changing new rule that says for each one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated. Makes sense. Nobody's ever seen regulations like we have.

You go to other countries and you look at industries they have, and you say, let me see your regulations, and they're a fraction, just a tiny fraction of what we have.

We've stood up for the men and women of law enforcement, directing federal agencies to ensure they are protected from crimes of violence.

We've directed the creation of a task force for reducing violent crime in America, including the horrendous situation - take a look at Chicago and others - taking place right now in our inner cities.

We're not going to have a wall [on Southern border] like now which is either non-existent or a joke.

To drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C., I started by impose ago five-year lobbying ban on white house officials, and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.

We've begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Wal-Mart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States just [2017] year because of our various plans and initiatives.

There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work yet.

Mike Flynn is a fine person. I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it.

[Mike Flynn] didn't just call Russia, he called and spoke to, both ways, I think there were 30-some-odd countries. He was just doing his job.

I fired Mike Flynn because of what he said to Mike Pence, very simple. Mike was doing his job, calling countries and his counterparts, so it certainly would have been ok with me if he did it.

I will say if John Podesta said that about me and he was working for me I would have fired him fast .

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.

I just see many, many untruthful things. I see tone, the word tone. The tone is such hatred. I'm really not a bad person, by the way.The tone is such - I do get good ratings, you have to admit that.

Tomorrow, they [mass media] will say, Donald Trump rants and raves at the press. I'm not ranting and raving. You're dishonest people.

Sometimes I'll say, wow, that's going be a great story, and I get killed.

I want to see an honest press.

The public doesn't believe [press] anymore. Maybe I had something to do with that, I don't know. But they don't believe you.

There is zero chaos, we are running - this is a fine-tuned machine. And Reince [Priebus] is doing a good job but half his job is putting out lies by the press.

Tomorrow you will say Donald Trump wants to get along with Russia, this is terrible! It's not terrible. It's good.

We had Hillary Clinton try and do a reset. We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20% of the uranium in our country.

If we could get along with Russia, that's a positive thing. We have a very talented man, Rex Tillerson, who is going to be meeting with them shortly.

You've had a lot of presidents that haven't take that tack [get along with Russia]. Look where we are now. Look where we are now. So, if I can - now, I love to negotiate things.

Tax reform should happen rather quickly.

We'll be submitting healthcare sometime in early March [2017], mid March, and after that, we're going to come up, and we're doing very well on tax reform.

Hillary Clinton tries to reset, it failed. They all tried. But I'm different than those people. Go ahead.

I think [Vladimir] Putin probably assumes he can't make a deal with me anymore because politically it would be unpopular for a politician to be making a deal.

It would be easier to be tough on Russian than make a deal. I don't know if we'll make a deal.

We will never be able to fix a rigged system by counting on the same people who rigged it in the first place.

Hillary Clinton used the State Department to enrich their family at America's expense.

As [the New York Times] winds down its years and is becoming more and more problematic, it's gotten more and more vicious, more and more vile.

In my former life I was in insider, as much as anybody else. And I knew what it's like, and I still know what it's like to be an insider. It's not bad.

I'm doing this [running for presidency] for the people and for the movement, and we will take back this country for you and we will make America great again.

[Democrats] have robbed these citizens of their future and, if we win, I will give them their hope, their jobs, their education. I will give them their security back.

[People] have no jobs, they have horrible education, they have no safety or security, and I say to the African-American community, what the hell do you have to lose?

We will help the Hispanic-American people, who have been treated so badly and so unfairly in our nation, we will help them.

We will vote for the special interests and say lots of luck but, you're being voted out of power.