Donald Trump

Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families, and good jobs for themselves. These are the just and reasonable demands of a righteous public.

In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.

I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.

Politicians can't manage. All they can do is talk.

Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.

The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.

I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.

If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.

China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world economically. And we're spending billions and billions and billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn't China involved with Libya? That - we don't get oil from Libya, China does.

I saw a report yesterday. There's so much oil, all over the world, they don't know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, 'Oh, there's too much oil.' They - they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they're our friends? They're not our friends.

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.

It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

I think George Will is somebody that said recently that the Republicans will not lose, as a Republican, that the Republicans will not win the election. I think it was a terrible statement.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.

Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.

I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws of this country, the chapter laws, to do a great job for my company, for myself, for my employees, for my family, et cetera.

Hillary Clinton is not going to be able to create jobs, I will tell you right now.

Mexico's making a fortune off the United States.

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

Somebody made the statement that Donald Trump has built or owns the greatest collection of golf courses, ever, in the history of golf. And I believe that is 100 percent true.

I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Republican - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

We have to straighten out our country; we have to make our country great again, and we need energy and enthusiasm.

I do respect them; I have great respect for women. In fact, one of the reasons 'The Apprentice' was such a successful show for so many years, the audience of women was fantastic.

I have the right temperament. I have the right leadership. I've built an incredible company. I went to a great school. I came out - I built an incredible company. I wrote the number one selling business book of all time: 'Trump: The Art of the Deal.'

Sure, sure, I'd like to see Apples built in the United States, not built in China. I'd like to see them have factories in the United States. At least partially. They make nothing in the United States, virtually.

Remember, many Republicans didn't vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't inspire people.

Ever since 'The Apprentice,' my life has gotten so much busier.

People assume I'm a boiler ready to explode, but I actually have very low blood pressure, which is shocking to people.

Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd.

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

I've created tens of thousands of jobs over the years.

To me, I love real estate because you can feel it.

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

It's my life. It just continues to go forward from 'The Apprentice.'

Jimmy Carter used to walk off the airplane carrying his own luggage. Do you remember that? I don't want my president carrying - I want the freaking Marines to be carrying his luggage, and they want to carry his luggage.

Seth Meyers is highly overrated as a comedian.

I've met some great people that deal with me in the press. I've also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.