In business -- every business -- the bottom line is understanding the process. If you don't understand the process, you'll never reap the rewards of the process.
DONALD TRUMP, How to Get Rich
As Republicans, if you think you are going to change very substantially for the worse Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in any substantial way, and at the same time you think you are going to win elections, it just really is not going to happen.... What we have to do and the way we solve our problems it to build a great economy.
DONALD TRUMP, Washington Times, March 15, 2013
Some people aren't meant to be rich. It's like when Babe Ruth was the greatest home run hitter. There had never been anybody like him, and his teammates would ask, "Babe, Babe, how do you hit the long ball?" And he'd say, "I don't know, man. I just swing at it." I see it like that. It's just something you have, something you're born with. Many people don't have the ability to be rich, because they're too lazy or they don't have the desire or the stick-to-itiveness. It's a talent. Some people have a talent for piano. Some people have a talent for raising a family. Some people have a talent for golf. I just happen to have a talent for making money.
DONALD TRUMP, Playboy, Oct. 2004
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
DONALD TRUMP, attributed, Social Networking for Authors: Untapped Possibilities for Wealth
The solution to the Great Social Security crisis couldn't be more obvious: Allow every American to dedicate some portion of their payroll taxes to a personal Social Security account that they could own and invest in stocks and bonds. Federal guidelines would make sure that your money is diversified, that it is invested in sound mutual funds or bond funds, and not in emu ranches. The national savings rate would soar and billions of dollars would be cycled from savings, to productive assets, to retirement money. And unlike the previous system, the assets in this retirement account could be left to one's heirs, used to start a business, or anything else one desires.
DONALD TRUMP, The America We Deserve
Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.
DONALD TRUMP, Playboy, Mar. 1990
Solar, as you know, hasn't caught on because, I mean, a solar panel takes 32 years -- it's a 32-year payback. Who wants a 32-year payback? The fact is, the technology is not there yet.
DONALD TRUMP, interview, FOX News, March 2012
Social Security faces a problem: 77 million baby boomers set to retire. Now I know there are some Republicans who would be just fine with allowing these programs to wither and die on the vine. The way they see it, Social Security and Medicare are wasteful "entitlement programs." But people who think this way need to rethink their position. It's not unreasonable for people who paid into a system for decades to expect to get their money's worth--that's not an "entitlement," that's honoring a deal. We as a society must also make an ironclad commitment to providing a safety net for those who can't make one for themselves.
DONALD TRUMP, Time to Get Tough
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
DONALD TRUMP, The Art of the Deal
I would never support what has to be the craziest ideas in the history of U.S. politics: allowing the government to invest Social Security retirement funds in the stock market. Not only would a market downturn spell disaster for millions of retirees, but the process by which government would choose stocks would also be entirely political, making lobbyists and other political hacks the new masters of the universe.
DONALD TRUMP, The America We Deserve
Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.
DONALD TRUMP, interview with Ashleigh Banfield, Good Morning America, March 17, 2011
If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband what makes her think she can satisfy America?
DONALD TRUMP, Twitter post (later deleted), April 16, 2015
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people. It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America, and it's coming probably -- probably -- from the Middle East. But we don't know. Because we have no protection and we have no competence, we don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop and it's got to stop fast.
DONALD TRUMP, speech announcing his candidacy for U.S. president, The Washington Post, June 16, 2015
If you don't tell people about your success, they probably won't know about it.
DONALD TRUMP, Trump: How to Get Rich
Get in, get it done, get it done right, and get out.
DONALD TRUMP, Trump: The Art of the Deal
Must be a pretty picture you dropping to your knees.
DONALD TRUMP, comment to Brande Roderick, The Apprentice, March 3, 2013
I'm not big on compromise. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of defeat, and I don't like being defeated.
DONALD TRUMP, Life Magazine, January 1989
My hair may not be perfect but it's mine.
DONALD TRUMP, Twitter post, April 24, 2013
I am officially running for president of the United States and we are going to make our country great again!
DONALD TRUMP, speech announcing his candidacy for U.S. president, The Washington Post, June 16, 2015
I think that I would be a great uniter. I think that I would have great diplomatic skills. I think that I would be able to get along with people very well. I've had a great success in my life. I think the world would unite if I were the leader of the United States.
DONALD TRUMP, The Hill, July 30, 2015
Torture works, okay folks?... Believe me, it works.... Waterboarding is your minor form. Some people say it's not actually torture. Let's assume it is. But they asked me the question. What do you think of waterboarding? Absolutely fine. But we should go much stronger than waterboarding. That's the way I feel.
DONALD TRUMP, "Torture works", CBS News, February 17, 2016
You know, it doesn't really matter what the media writes as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass.
DONALD TRUMP, "Would God Be So Good?", Esquire, July 29, 2013
I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.
DONALD TRUMP, interview with Norwegian talk show host Fredrik Skavlan, November 2003
If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.
DONALD TRUMP, The View, March 6, 2006
I have long felt the United Nations is an underperformer but has tremendous potential.... I mean, I see a day when there's a conflict where the United Nations, you get together, and you solve the conflict. You just don't see the United Nations, like, solving conflicts. I think that's going to start happening now. I can see it. And the United Nations will get together and solve conflicts. It won't be two countries, it will be the United Nations mediating or arbitrating with those countries.
DONALD TRUMP, "Trump to Security Council Members: United Nations 'Is An Underperformer,' But It Will Start Living Up To Its Potential Now", Real Clear Politics, April 24, 2017
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
DONALD TRUMP, Trump: The Art of the Deal
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
DONALD TRUMP, Twitter post, November 6, 2012
The silent majority is back, and we're going to take the country back.
DONALD TRUMP, Fox News Insider, July 12, 2015
To every Gold Star family, God is with you, and your loved ones are with Him. They died in wars so that we could live in peace. I believe that God has a special place in heaven for those who laid down their lives so that others may live free from fear and this horrible oppression.
DONALD TRUMP, remarks on Memorial Day, May 29, 2017
I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks.
DONALD TRUMP, "Donald Trump as GOP hopeful: Take him seriously", The Washington Post, April 18, 2011
26,000 unreported sexual assults in the military--only 238 convictions. What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?
DONALD TRUMP, Twitter post, May 7, 2013
Words cannot measure the depth of their devotion, the purity of their love, or the totality of their courage. We only hope that every day we can prove worthy not only of their sacrifice and service but of the sacrifice made by the families and loved ones they left behind. Special, special people.
DONALD TRUMP, remarks on Memorial Day, May 29, 2017
It's very exciting we have a new president. It would have been nice if he ended with a 500 point up instead of down. It's certainly very exciting. His speech was great last night. I thought it was inspiring in every way. And, hopefully he's going to do a great job. But the way I look at it, he cannot do worse than Bush.
DONALD TRUMP, interview with Greta Van Susteren, FOX News, November 6, 2008
I'm on the conservative side, but Buchanan is Attila the Hun.
DONALD TRUMP, Selected Quotes from Newsweek Magazine, 1999
It's freezing and snowing in New York--we need global warming!
DONALD TRUMP, Twitter post, November 7, 2012
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