Donald Trump

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people. That’s what gives rise to dictators.

I own buildings. I’m a builder; I know how to build. Nobody can build like I can build. Nobody. And the builders in New York will tell you that. I build the best product. And my name helps a lot.

I will fight for you with every breath in my body – and I will never, ever let you down.

I’m just thinking to myself right now, we should just cancel the election and just give it to Trump, right?

I’ve never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it’s almost never true altruism.

We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called ‘moderate Republicans’. The ‘political revolution’ that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower.

Some of the slave-owners, like Jefferson, appreciated the moral turpitude on which the economy relied. But he feared the liberation of slaves, who have ‘ten thousand recollections’ of the crimes to which they were subjected.

The common good is the aspiration of all of us.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

And [Saudi Arabia] is strongly backed by the United States and its allies, Britain and France. Reason? It’s got a lot of oil. It’s got a lot of money. You can sell them a lot of arms, I think tens of billions of dollars of arms.

I’m not a dictator who writes things to tell people what to do.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

Of all the treasures a state can possess, the human lives of its citizens are for us the most precious.

No one’s asked me. If somebody felt there was a job I could actually do I would consider it — not out of any ambition to be in Washington, but I do want to rise to the occasion of serving there if warranted.

[on Jeremy Cobyn] It is a different type of Labour Party. Can it be taken back? I don’t know