Donald Quotes

I think Obamacare has now taken over almost from regulation, which is ridiculous what's happening with overregulation, as the biggest single problem for opening and keeping businesses going.

If [Vladimir] Putin likes Donald Trump, guess what, folks, that's called an asset, not a liability.

I have to say, early on, to be fair, in the [Barack] Obama administration, the Obama White House said that Fox News was not a true news organization.

The jobs left, and the factories closed... the wealth, strength and confidence of America has disappeared over the horizon.

I will reinforce old alliances and form new ones, and unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.

I have a running war with the media. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.

I will say this, I will rely on [Mike ] Pompeo and [James] Mattis and my group.

We're gonna have a much better health care plan at much less money.

Remember Obamacare is ready to explode.

I said '17 - right now, this year, "'17 is going to be a disaster." I'm very good at this stuff.

A free and independent Britain is a blessing to the world.

If America can have a great relationship with Russia and with China and with all countries, I'm all for that. That would be a tremendous asset.

The United States cannot continue to lose vast amounts of business, vast amounts of companies, and millions and millions of people losing their jobs.

I was tired and I think a lot of people are tired of watching other countries ripping off the United States.

Ends the policy of catch and release at the border, requires other countries to take back their criminals.

It's my theme, my whole theme is, "Make America Great Again." It's a concept of greatness for this country.

[People] are tired of being ripped off by every single country that does business with us. Whether it's China, Japan, Mexico, Vietnam.

[People] are tired of looking at what happens, they are tired of us having our... let's say finest and brightest not being involved in the most important decisions, and being someplace else.

With China, their primary weapon in China is what they've done with the devaluation of their currency.

In the trade pact you know that was recently agreed to, I said you have to talk about devaluation. Because that's been their [China] single greatest asset in terms of what they are doing to us.

We rebuilt China.The money they took out of the United States is the greatest theft in the history of our country. The money they've taken out, the jobs they've taken out, the base.

[Apple] make nothing in the United States, virtually.

I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

Japan is doing a big number on the yen, devaluing it.

I have friends from China - by the way I love China. I love Japan. I have people that buy my apartments, I have people that work for me from China.

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 .