Donald Trump

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

You don’t reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure.

Look at those hands, are they small hands? And, [Republican rival Marco Rubio] referred to my hands: ‘If they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

Investors are visionaries in some respects – they look beyond the present.

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin’s still learning.

Much research, including a widely quoted Rand Corporation study of 1994, has shown that prevention and treatment are considerably more cost-effective than the coercive [drug war] measures that receive the bulk of funding. Such nonpunitive measures are also of course far more humane.

If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I’m a professor at MIT, that’s nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.

I am a Communist, a convinced Communist! For some that may be a fantasy. But to me it is my main goal.

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

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.

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

… 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.

[on Trump] But there are some pretty stable elements of his ideology, if you can even grant him that concept. One of them is: “Climate change is not taking place.” As he puts it: “Forget it.” And that’s almost a death knell for the species – not tomorrow, but the decisions we take now are going to affect things in a couple of decades, and in a couple of generations it could be catastrophic.

How can a bureaucrat or a politician be trusted if he says loud words for the sake of Russia’s good while trying to take his funds, his money abroad?

The argument for liberty is…an argument…against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.

Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made.