Donald Trump

No one can match America. We have big hearts-and the courage to do what’s right. But we’re not the world’s policemen. And if we have to take on that role, we need to send a clear message that protection comes at a price. If other countries benefit from our armed forces protecting them, those countries should cover the costs. Period.

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

Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That’s politics!

You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job.

The most important thing in life is to love what you’re doing, because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.

I always look at it that I work with my employees as opposed to them working for me.

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

At the deepest level, the media contribute to the sense that the government is the enemy, and they suppress the sources of real power in the society, which lie in the totalitarian institutions-the corporations, now international in scale -that control the economy and much of our social life.

I don’t believe in playing games. It’s not something I would do.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it.

A very, in a sense, terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war]. I think that’s more terrifying than the occasional Hitler or LeMay or other that crops up. These people would not be able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity…and therefore I think that it’s, in some sense, the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who share a very serious burden of guilt that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and violent.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Trump does have a base, a voter base. He’s kicking them in the face with abandon. And the idea is: How do you hold onto them while you’re doing this? Not an easy trick. And this, I think, is part of the con.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Anarchism calls for an elimination to tyranny, all kinds of tyranny. Including the kind of tyranny that’s internal to private power concentrations. So why should we prefer it? Well I think because freedom is better than subordination. It’s better to be free than to be a slave.