Donald Trump

When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.

I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. I’ve been challenged by so many people, and I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either.

Kim Jong-un is 27 years old. His father dies, took over a regime. So say what you want but that is not easy, especially at that age.

We – we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is a fraud

I like thinking big. I always have. To me it’s very simple: if you’re going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage.

Nationalizing the whole oil sector would be a difficult and highly dangerous process, which could have negative consequences not only for the sector but for the whole economy.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it ten minutes later. Reading a book is an intellectual exercise, which stimulates thought, questions, imagination.

It’s not radical Islam that worries the US – it’s independence

Legal aid is fundamentally important in a democratic, civilised society.

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don’t tell him the truth. Others won’t do it.

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia’s good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left. It’s totally dishonest.

Eventually we’re going to get something done and it’s going to be really, really good.

Why does the world dislike Russia? I do not think that we are unloved or considered to be ignorant.

The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It’s very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can’t fight the world alone.

For many years, election campaigns here have been run by the public relations industry and each time it’s with increasing sophistication. Quite naturally, the industry uses the same technique to sell candidates that it uses to sell toothpaste or lifestyle drugs.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

You have no right to criticise Russia over Chechnya.