Donald Trump

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

The more predictable the business, the more valuable it is.

Kim Jong-un speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.

The harder I work, the luckier I get. When you have momentum going, play the momentum.

Contrary to what a lot of people think, I don’t enjoy doing press. I’ve been asked the same questions a million times now, and I don’t particularly like talking about my personal life.

What’s the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.

All political theories assume…that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ…in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.

If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn’t happen by laws of nature. And it doesn’t happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success – in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

We can win an awful lot of people into the political spectrum, by offering something that is … radical.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

My first four jobs were minimum wage or close to it.

You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.

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

The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step.

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.

There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm.

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA-infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great – but must suffer the consequences!

It appears, our partners thought that this would never affect them, this counterproductive politics of restrictions and sanctions. But now we are seeing that this is happening.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.