Donald Trump Quotes

We're so so interested in protecting criminals and people that want to do us harm and I think we have to go back to a little more old fashioned method of thinking, if that makes sense.

The size of the army, absolutely. It's getting too small.

I feel so strongly that I use a different word in going around that our forces are depleted - they're depleted.

We're gonna build up our forces, including the Army.

We have to have the strongest military by far...

We're spending on numerous countries - very substantial countries, you know the countries we're talking about - but we're defending them for a fraction of the cost.

We will build our military forces to a level that will be, I believe, stronger than ever before if I become President of the United States...

Had we kept the oil, you wouldn't have ISIS, because they fuel their growth with the oil.

I'm a big fan of General Douglas MacArthur and General George Patton.We have a few generals that have been so incredible to me. Now we have 200.

Why do we have to talk about it? Why? I never saw anything like this. Every time we're going to attack somebody we explain....

When President [Barack] Obama announced that he was leaving Iraq, I mean, he was talking about dates and times and what we're going to do.

I just want to say that we are going to hit ISIS hard, and I mean really hard, but I do think this.

We don't need to [know the date and hour and second that we're going to attack] - they just want to see victory.

At some point, we have to stop a force that's going out and drowning people in steel cages and chopping off heads.

We're gonna stop them [ISIS], we're gonna stop them cold.

That's through intelligence, not through ignorance, believe me. Because some of the things that they're asking you to do [in the Army] and be politically correct about are ridiculous.

We get our military people to come back and make recommendations to me and I will follow those recommendations. I will follow them very strongly.

The world is changing isn't it? So you're not allowed to pray before a football game. I thought it was horrible.

You're gonna get what's good, you're gonna get what the generals and what the admirals and what - and the enlisted and they'll - we'll get together, we wanna get the right stuff.

If they listen to the military people, we probably wouldn't be having an ISIS right now.

We're running a war by politicians and we're running a war by political correctness as per that question [with ISIS].

I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't been in this position since World War I.

We have an Army that hasn't been in this position since World War II, in terms of levels and in terms of readiness and in terms of everything else. We are not capable like we have to be.

It's a depleted - we have a very depleted military.

We have great people, we have a depleted military.

I told you about the jet fighters. Well it's like that with so many other things. So we are going to take care of our military.

I can only say this, a very, very important element of any country, but our country, and in my opinion, the single most important thing that a president can do is the defense of our country.

We can talk about Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. We can talk about school, we can talk about everything. Defense is number one or we don't have a country.

Our military and the strength of our military and the strengthening of our military is a number one priority for the Trump administration.

America is a great country. This is a great land.

When I look at all of the things that I see and all of the potential that America has, we have such tremendous potential, whether it's in business and trade, where we're doing so badly.

We have to bring back respect to law enforcement.

Russia is new in terms of nuclear. America is old.

In America, we're tired. We're exhausted in terms of nuclear.

In America, every time we take rebels, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere else, we're arming people. And you know what happens? They end up being worse than the people.

Look at what Hillary Clinton did in Libya with Gadhafi. Gadhafi's out. It's a mess. And, by the way, ISIS has a good chunk of their oil. I'm sure you probably have heard that. It was a disaster.

The fact is, almost everything Hillary Clinton's done in foreign policy has been a mistake and it's been a disaster.

I don't like Assad at all, but Assad is killing ISIS. Russia is killing ISIS. And Iran is killing ISIS. And those three have now lined up because of our weak foreign policy.

I think Aleppo is a disaster, humanitarian-wise.

General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.

NAFTA, signed by her [Hillary Clinton's] husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world.

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.

Let me tell you, if Hillary Clinton's president of the United States, nothing's going to happen. It's just going to be talk.

Hillary Clinton's all talk. It doesn't get done. All you have to do is take a look at her Senate run. Take a look at upstate New York.

America cannot take another four years of Barack Obama, and that's what you're getting with Hillary Clinton.

America has the slowest growth and jobs are a disaster.

Energy is under siege by the Obama administration.

I'm all for alternative forms of energy, including wind, including solar, et cetera. But we need much more than wind and solar.

Hillary Clinton wants to put all the miners out of business.

I will bring our energy companies back. They'll be able to compete. They'll make money. They'll pay off our national debt. They'll pay off our tremendous budget deficits, which are tremendous.