Donald J. Trump: Trending quotes (page 12)

“I'd say we've had a lot of problems with radical Islamic terrorism. That's what I'd say. We have a lot of problems. … I'd say you've got to take a look at that, because something is going on. And it's not good.”

Donald J. Trump

2010s, 2016, July, This Week Interview (July 30, 2016)

Problem

“So this is promoting agriculture and rural prosperity in America. And, now, there's a lot of words I won't bother reading everything.”

Donald J. Trump

Remarks by President Trump in Farmers Roundtable and Executive Order Signing Promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/25/remarks-president-trump-farmers-roundtable-and-executive-order-signing (April 25, 2017)
2010s, 2017, April

Reading

“The Persians, very good negotiators. Great negotiators, legendary negotiators. They're known for it. They're sitting across the table.”

Donald J. Trump

2010s, 2016, January, Speech at (18 January 2016)

“I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons.”

Donald J. Trump

[The America We Deserve, w:Donald Trump, Donald, Trump, Dave, Shiflett, 2000, Renaissance Books, 1580631312]; [Trump's Evolving Positions on Gun Issues, Linda, Qiu, Kitty, Bennett, March 12, 2018, The New York Times, September 6, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/us/politics/trump-evolving-positions-gun-issues.html]
2000s

Support

“I'm conservative, and even very conservative. But I'm quite liberal and getting much more liberal on health care and other things. I really say: What's the purpose of a country if you're not going to have defensive and health care? If you can't take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it's all over. I mean, it's no good. So I'm very liberal when it comes to health care. I believe in universal health care. I believe in whatever it takes to make people well and better.”

Donald J. Trump

Interview with Larry King http://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/10/08/trump.transcript/ CNN (October 1999)
1990s

People , Health , Country , Forgetting

“So, ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for president of the United States, and we are going to make our country great again!”

Donald J. Trump

2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)

Country

“Secretary Tom Price is also here. Today Dr. Price still lives the scout oath, helping to keep millions of Americans strong and healthy as our Secretary of Health and Human Services, and he's doing a great job. And, hopefully, he's going to get the votes tomorrow to start our path toward killing this horrible thing known as Obamacare that's really hurting us, folks. By the way, you going to get the votes? He better get them. He better get them. Oh, he better, otherwise I'll say, "Tom, you're fired."”

Donald J. Trump

2010s, 2017, July, 2017 National Scout Jamboree (July 24, 2017)

Health , Way , Strong , Help

“In my life, there are two things I've found I'm very good at: overcoming obstacles and motivating good people to do their best work.”

Donald J. Trump

Source: 1980s, Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987), p. 367

Life , People , Motivation

“Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.”

Donald J. Trump

Source: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 30

People , Law , Country

“You need more police. You need a better community, you know, relation. … You need better relationships between the communities and the police, because in some cases, it's not good.”

Donald J. Trump

2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

Communication

“You've got half the room going totally crazy, wild, they loved everything, they wanna do something great for our country, and you have the other side, even on positive news, really positive news, like that, they were like death, and un-American, un-American. Somebody said treasonous, I mean, yeah I guess, why not? Can we call that treason, why not?”

Donald J. Trump

Speaking in Cincinnati about Democrats did not clap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjwPiE1wCU0 during his State of the Union Address (5 February 2018)
2010s, 2018, February

Love , Death , Country

“We have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it.”

Donald J. Trump

2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

“Maybe he didn't do a good job and I was unsatisfied with his work … On occasion, four times, we used certain laws that are there. And when Secretary Clinton talks about people that didn't get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation. Now, if you want to change the laws, you've been there a long time, change the laws. But I take advantage of the laws of the nation because I'm running a company. My obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. And that's what I do. … She [Hillary Clinton] doesn't say is that tens of thousands of people that are unbelievably happy and that love me.”

Donald J. Trump

About not having paid to some of his employees.
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

Love , People , Family , Law

“To me, for politicians to claim that we have an answer to every problem is silly. When you listen to some politicians reeling off their prepared answers, you almost fall for it. They're all experts. But nothing ever happens.”

Donald J. Trump

Source: 2010s, 2015, Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015), p. 73

Problem

“Look at that face! [of Carly Fiorina] Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!”

Donald J. Trump

2015-09-09
Trump Seriously: On the Trail With the GOP's Tough Guy
Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/trump-seriously-20150909
2010s, 2015

Imagination

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

Donald J. Trump

Originated with Samuel Goldwyn as a paraphrase of a proverb from a collection by Coleman Cox, but similar proverbs have existed since the 16th century. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/21/luck-hard-work/
Misattributed

Back To Work

“The U. S. will invite El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord who just escaped prison, to become a U. S. citizen because our "leaders" can't say no!”

Donald J. Trump

Twitter https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/620443960020963328 (12 July 2015)
2010s, 2015

“I said, 'I will build you this incredible, gorgeous, gleaming hotel. I will put people to work in the construction trades and save hotel jobs and the Grand Central area will come around.”

Donald J. Trump

So the city made the deal.
The Empire and Ego of Donald Trump
New York Times
1983-08-07
Marilyn
Bender
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/07/business/the-empire-and-ego-of-donald-trump.html
1980s

People

“You ever see guys with nothing on their desk? They always fail. I don't know what it is. I've seen it for years.”

Donald J. Trump

Explaining his messy desk, NY Times Magazine interview. * 2015-09-21
Donald Trump is not going anywhere
Mark Leibovich
The New York Times Magazine
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/magazine/donald-trump-is-not-going-anywhere.html
2010s, 2015

Guy

“I think we have to get NATO to go into the Middle East with us, in addition to surrounding nations, and we have to knock the hell out of ISIS, and we have to do it fast, when ISIS formed in this vacuum created by Barack Obama and Secretary Clinton. And believe me, you were the ones that took out the troops. … When they formed, this is something that never should have happened. It should have never happened. Now, you're talking about taking out ISIS. But you were there, and you were secretary of state when it was a little infant. Now it's in over 30 countries. And you're going to stop them? I don't think so.”

Donald J. Trump

2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

Hell , Thinking , Country