Donald Trump

I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it’s literally going to cease to exist.

I’ll drink water. Sometimes tomato juice, which I like. Sometimes orange juice, which I like. I’ll drink different things. But the Coke or Pepsi boosts you up a little.

I would rather take a political risk in pursuit of peace than to risk peace in pursuit of politics.

I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I’m very proud of the job I did.

A tiny leak can sink a ship.

Think Big and make it happen.

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.

While Trump’s antics occupy the attention of the media, his associates in Congress have been working intensively to advance the interests of their actual constituency-extreme wealth and corporate power-while dismantling what is of value to the general population andfuture generations.

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don’t even dare walk on the grass?

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

What is called ‘capitalism’ is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close co-operation with powerful states…

Jefferson, to his credit, at least recognized that the slavery in which he participated was ‘the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.’

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.

I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.

As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized …

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

What we call intellectuals, they didn’t used to call them that, it’s a modern term. Historically, what you find is overwhelmingly this group is supportive of power. There’s usually a fringe of dissidents who are treated pretty badly.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me. I mean, there are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster’; instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees. But then you take a look at what the corporation does, the effect of its legal structure, the vast inequalities in pay and conditions, and you see the reality is something far different.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

Firstly, it is through the growth of the economy itself, that’s the main source of additional resources. It is also the more effective use of existing resources, adjustment in some senses of our macro-economic plans and of course adjustments to our tax policy.