Donald Trump

I addressed directly with President Putin the issue of Russian interference in our elections. I felt this was a message best delivered in person. Spent a great deal of time talking about it. And President Putin may very well want to address it, and very strongly, because he feels very strongly about it, and he has an interesting idea.

Remember this: Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy. Following your convictions means you must be willing to face criticism from those who lack the same courage to do what is right.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

An entrepreneur’s ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.

First and foremost, I’m a real estate person. And that’s what I love the most.

The problems we face now – poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad – will last only as long as we continue relying on the same politicians who created them in the first place.

Banning guns is an idea whose time has come.

The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages…onward, to victory!

International terrorism is throwing down a challenge, and not just to Russia.

By the autumn of this year, additional measures should be introduced which will stabilize the situation on the market.

I understand that it’s hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions… we’ll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we’ll have to work on overcoming it.

Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’. The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out.

Grotesque as the Soviet empire was, its very existence offered a certain space for non-alignment, and for perfectly cynical reasons, it sometimes provided assistance to victims of Western attack. Those options are gone, and the South is suffering the consequences.

Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

I do have a relationship [with Putin] and I can tell you he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today

Trumpism is one of many manifestations of the effects of the neoliberal policies of the past generation. These have led to extreme concentration of wealth along with stagnation for the majority.

I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say.