Donald Trump

The more people tell you it’s not possible, that it can’t be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word ‘impossible’ as nothing more than motivation.

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

Always think positively and expect the best.

Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG!

To be blunt, people would vote for me. They just would. Why? Maybe because I’m so good looking.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism

The commentators of 1963 speak, in discussing Africa, of the Monrovia States, the Brazzaville Group, the Casablanca Powers, of these and many more. Let us put an end to these terms. What we require is a single African organisation through which Africa’s single voice may be heard, within which Africa’s problems may be studied and resolved.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England – where liberal value have deep historic roots.

I believe there’s too little patience and context to many of the investigations I read or see on television.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought – by force of circumstances, not argument – to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military in your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or a tendency to lash out. You need to be steady and measured and well-informed.

The Federal Constitution… disavowed beforehand the habitual use of compulsion in enforcing the decisions of the majority.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Usually, by and large, the U.S. foreign policy, like other major states, is driven by the dominant domestic forces. That’s kind of natural. And the dominant domestic forces are, of course, the corporate sector. That’s not in question.

… the media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege and limiting debate and discussion accordingly.

Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing.

You don’t get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.