Quotes By Donald Trump

For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike.

This is one of the most important days, in my opinion, in American history. It's our declaration of economic independence.

Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base. We will pry open foreign markets and break down foreign trade barriers, and ultimately, more production at home will mean stronger competition and lower prices for consumers.

We will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us.

We're going to be charging [China with] a discounted reciprocal tariff of 34 percent.

They charge us, we charge them, we charge them less. So how can anybody be upset? They will be, because we never charged anybody anything. But now we're going to charge.

From 1789 to 1913 we were a tariff-backed nation, and the United States was proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been.

In 1913 for reasons unknown to mankind, they established the income tax so that citizens, rather than foreign countries, would start paying the money necessary to run our government.

Then in 1929 it all came to a very abrupt end with the Great Depression. And it would have never happened if they had stayed with the tariff policy.

The United States can no longer continue with the policy of unilateral economic surrender.

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

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

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

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

Remember, there's no such thing as an unrealistic goal-just unrealistic time frames.

When you are wronged repeatedly, the worst thing you can do is continue taking it--fight back!

As long as you are going to be thinking anyway, think big.

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

It's always good to be underestimated.

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake, but by what you finally accomplish.