“[Interviewer: You're not known to be a humble man. But I wonder—] I think I am actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand.”

—  Donald J. Trump

During an interview by Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R42mFx3_ss (17 July 2016)
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