Donald Quotes

I'm a person who has, to a certain extent, redefined where I should be. I started off in Brooklyn and Queens and I wasn't supposed to come to Manhattan.

My father didn't want to go to Manhattan for me, and I came to Manhattan and I have done a great job in Manhattan. And then I wrote a best-seller and I wrote numerous best-sellers.

I wrote 'The Art of the Deal' and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess 'The Art of the Deal' is the best-selling business book of all time.

I had a TV show called 'The Apprentice' and it's one of the most successful reality shows in the history of television. And now I'm doing something else.

President [Barack] Obama has been an unbelievable divider of this country, whether it's rich and poor; white and black.

One thing I had hoped Barack Obama would be is a good cheerleader for the country. He's really brought the opposite in spirit to the country.

[Barack Obama] has been a very negative force. I think you see this when you see the tremendous division in the country, when you see Baltimore, when you see Ferguson and St. Louis.

As far as the country is concerned, we have tremendous potential, but we're not using it.

We have to make our country rich again before we can make it great again.

You shouldn't be allowed to profit from the illegal proceeds, right? So if you're going to sell narcotics and sell illegal drugs in America, you also cannot profit from that.

Courts in America seem to be so political, and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a statement and do what's right.

Together, we will make America great again.

I will cancel job-killing restrictions on the production of American energy, including shale energy and clean coal, creating many millions of high-paying jobs.

If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability, because we have a horrible relationship with Russia.

As president, I could run the Trump organization, great, great company, and I could run the company - the country. I'd do a very good job, but I don't want to do that.

People have learned a lot about my company and now they realize, my company is much bigger, much more powerful than they ever thought. We're in many, many countries, and I'm very proud of it.

In America, we don't even have a border. It's an open sieve.

All I can ask for is honest reporters.

The United States is hacked by everybody.

Russia will have much greater respect for America when I'm leading than when other people have led it. You will see that. Russia will respect our country more.

Russia, China, Japan, Mexico, all countries will respect America far more when I'm leading it, far more than they do under past administrations.

When I ran, people know I have a very big business. So I mean they elected me I guess partially for that reason.

We ought to get back to making America great again, which is what I am going to do.

There is nothing the political establishment will not do - no lie that they won't tell, to hold their prestige and power at your expense. And that's what's been happening.

This [2016] is not simply another four-year election. This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we the people reclaim control over our government.

Honestly, Hillary Clinton should be locked up.

Barack Obama is incompetent. All he wants to do is campaign, and the last thing he wants to happen is to have Donald Trump terminate Obamacare.

The last thing America needs is four more years of Barack Obama.

President Obama should stop campaigning and start working on creating jobs, start working on getting our GDP up, start working on strengthening our borders.

The corrupt political establishment is a machine, it has no soul.

The only force strong enough to save our country is us.

America has given me so much, and I feel so strongly that it's my turn to give back to the country that I love.

Our gross domestic product, or GDP, is barely above 1 percent. And going down.

[Establishment] raided the wealth for themselves and taken our jobs away out of our country never to return unless I'm elected president.

The e-mails show the reporters collaborate and conspire directly with the [Hillary] Clinton campaign on helping her win the election all over.

[The corporate media] agenda is to elect crooked Hillary Clinton at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroy.

I pledge to never sign any trade agreement that hurts our workers or that diminishes our freedom and our independence. We will never, ever sign bad trade deals. America first again. America first!

My administration is going to enforce all trade violations against any country that cheats.

That's the problem in politics. One wrong word and it's over.

This is the United States of America that I'm representing. I'm not representing the globe.

We must act now to save Americans from the imploding Obamacare disaster.

2017 would be a disaster for Obamacare. That's the year it was meant to explode because Obama won't be here.

The best thing we can do politically speaking is let Obamacare explode.

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.

I'm not a bad person. I'm just doing my thing... I'm, you know, running, I want to do something that's good. It's not an easy thing to do.

I don't want to impede free press, by the way. The last thing I would want to do is that.

I think NATO as a concept is good, but it is not as good as it was when it first evolved. And I think we bear the, you know, not only financially, we bear the biggest brunt of it.

I think that we are not in the position that we used to be. I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country. And we're a poor country now. We're a debtor nation.

I think Barack Obama is gonna go down as the worst president ever, frankly. I used to say that about Jimmy Carter but I think he's gonna be surpassed.

We are well aware of what Donald Trump has done in his first 100 days. And people are organized all over the place to fight back.