I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
— Donald Trump
Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.
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.
That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.
I'm the No. 1 developer in New York, I'm the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we'll keep it that way.
Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.
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 think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.
Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'
If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
People love me. And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me.
I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.
I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit.
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.
It's always good to be underestimated.
A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
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.'
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.
The first thing the secretary types is the boss.
Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.
Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
We need intelligence in this country. We need a certain toughness in this country, or we're going to end up like a lot of the other places, and we're not going to have a country left.
In July of 2004, I came out strongly against the war with Iraq because it was going to destabilize the Middle East.
I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.
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.
Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.
I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.
Without passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.
It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
The 1990's sure aren't like the 1980's.
My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.
I have great respect for the Pope. I like the Pope. I actually like him.
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.
Everything in life is luck.
Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country.
I was a great student. I was good at everything.
