Donald Trump

I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer, and we had a tremendous success.

Creativity and control can go hand in hand.

I have a very simple rule when it comes to management: hire the best people from your competitors, pay them more than they were earning, and give them bonuses and incentives based on their performance. That’s how you build a first-class operation.

Don’t underestimate yourself or your possibilities.

She does have a very nice figure… If [Ivanka] weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.

I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke.

[Overseas] we build a school, we build a road, they blow up the school, we build another school, we build another road, they blow them up, we build again. In the meantime we can’t get a f**king school in Brooklyn.

Is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton?

Under my administration anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country and back to the country from which they came.

No sooner does a government attempt to go beyond its political sphere… than it exercises… insupportable tyranny.

As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads.

Immigrants would be very happy to stay in their own countries instead of coming here to unpleasant and harsh situations. They can’t, because we have ruined their countries. So, the first step…should be to help reconstruct and rebuild what we have destroyed.

The Secretary of Defense is not a super General or Admiral. His task is to exercise civilian control over the Department for the Commander-in-Chief and the country.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

I’m the most successful person ever to run for the presidency, by far. Nobody’s ever been more successful than me. I’m the most successful person ever to run. Ross Perot isn’t successful like me. Romney – I have a Gucci store that’s worth more than Romney.

I am sick of all the chaos and the nastiness of our politics. It’s exhausting, and frankly, it’s depressing.

Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.

Big institutions, like Goldman Sachs really don’t have to worry much about systemic risk because we don’t have a market system. So therefore they can run cap in hand to the nanny state and say ‘bail me out’ and that’s what happens.

I’m actually proud because I beat [the] Clinton dynasty. I beat [the] Bush dynasty. Now I guess, hopefully I’m in the process of beating very dishonest intelligence because, what they did was incredible.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.