Top 450 Donald Trump Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “I’ve never once in my life known a person who was successful who didn’t have a big ego. Ego’s not a bad thing.”

— Donald Trump

202. “When I build something for somebody, I always add $50 million or $60 million onto the price. My guys come in, they say it’s going to cost $75 million. I say it’s going to cost $125 million, and I build it for $100 million. Basically, I did a lousy job. But they think I did a great job.”

— Donald Trump

203. “I think the media is among the most dishonest groups of people I’ve ever met.”

— Donald Trump

204. “I was in a state of shock, because I have never seen the pope talk about something as unimportant as Donald Trump. OK? And I was like, the pope is talking about me? This can’t be happening. And then I said, is it good or bad? They said it’s bad.”

— Donald Trump

205. “I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I’m enjoying my life. I don’t really live in an as extravagant way as people think.”

— Donald Trump

206. “If you look – look at – I mean, look at what’s going on with your gasoline prices. They’re going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don’t have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, ‘Fellas, it’s time. It’s over. You’re not going to do it anymore.’”

— Donald Trump

207. “If I’m going to be president, I will try the best I can, and I’m a very good dealmaker, believe me.”

— Donald Trump

208. “We won with everything! We won with women! I love the women! We won with evangelicals. Like, unbelievable.”

— Donald Trump

209. “I’m asking you to make at least some of your Christmas giving important.”

— Donald Trump

210. “It’s very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.”

— Donald Trump

211. “I love the people and I actually think they like me a lot.”

— Donald Trump

212. “Hillary Clinton was saying Bill Clinton has tendencies toward being sexist.”

— Donald Trump

213. “I love what I’m doing. But I love the USA more. And I can straighten it out. And I can truly make this country great again and nobody else can do what I do.”

— Donald Trump

214. “We do have to look at the mosques very carefully. The mosques, a lot of things are happening in there, folks, a lot of things.”

— Donald Trump

215. “America’s problem is too much political correctness.”

— Donald Trump

216. “For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful. I’m proud to be a Christian, and as president, I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now.”

— Donald Trump

217. “I think maybe my greatest weakness is that I trust people too much. I’m too trusting. And when they let me down, if they let me down, I never forgive. I find it very, very hard to forgive people that deceived me. So I don’t know if you would call that a weakness, but my wife said “let up.””

— Donald Trump

218. “Ultimately, if you’re not doing what you love, you’re not going to be fulfilled. Sure, to make money, you have to be tough, you have to have some smarts and a little luck would help, but the bottom line is: You have to love what you do.”

— Donald Trump

219. “I like Mexico. I love the Mexican people. I do business with the Mexican people, but you have people coming through the border that are from all over. And they’re bad. They’re really bad.”

— Donald Trump

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

— Donald Trump

221. “We need a toughness. We need strength. We’re not respected, as a nation anymore. We don’t have that level of respect that we need. And if we don’t get it back fast, we’re just going to go weaker, weaker and just disintegrate.”

— Donald Trump

222. “I’ll tell you, it’s Big Business. If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it’s Big Business. Or two words – Big Business.”

— Donald Trump

223. “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and I will make Mexico pay for that wall.”

— Donald Trump

224. “I want a strong border. I do want a wall. Walls do work, you just have to speak to the folks in Israel. Walls work if they’re properly constructed. I know how to build, believe me, I know how to build.”

— Donald Trump

225. “I love producing children. It’s fun! I don’t like taking care of children, but I love producing children.”

— Donald Trump

226. “I am really rich. All of my life I have heard a truly successful, and even a modestly successful person, cannot run for public office – just can’t happen. Yet that’s the kind of mindset you need to make this country great again.”

— Donald Trump

227. “Nelson Mandela and myself had a wonderful relationship – he was a special man and will be missed.”

— Donald Trump

228. “Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.”

— Donald Trump

229. “We are going to start winning again. We don’t win on trade, we can’t beat Isil. We are going to win so much. We are going to make America greater than ever before.”

— Donald Trump

230. “Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone’s shortlist of best baseball writers ever.”

— Donald Trump

231. “The Middle East is totally destabilized. A total and complete mess.”

— Donald Trump

232. “We won with the military. We won with highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated. But we won with everything, tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people just won.”

— Donald Trump

233. “You have Obama that wants to play golf instead of deal with people.”

— Donald Trump

234. “The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people’s fantasies. People may not always think big themselves, but theycan still get very excited by those who do. That’s why a little hyperbole never hurts.”

— Donald Trump

235. “For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It’s fatal. It’s costly. And it’s for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.”

— Donald Trump

236. “The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.”

— Donald Trump

237. “You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight A’s and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn’t have the instincts, he’ll never be a successful entrepreneur.”

— Donald Trump

238. “A lot of people want me to run for things, for a lot of high offices. The polls always show that I win any election that I’m in. But I don’t have any real interest in running for office. I’m more interested in supporting people.”

— Donald Trump

239. “I don’t hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don’t trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.”

— Donald Trump

240. “Donald Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”

— Donald Trump

241. “I think I have great knowledge of foreign policy, frankly. And despite what some people said, I was always against the war in Iraq, and a lot of people weren’t.”

— Donald Trump

242. “Marco Rubio hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I’ve never heard of this. What – look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands – if they’re small, something else must be small. I guarantee you, there’s no problem. I guarantee you.”

— Donald Trump

243. “I’m the No. 1 developer in New York, I’m the biggest in Atlantic City, and maybe we’ll keep it that way.”

— Donald Trump

244. “I don’t like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat.”

— Donald Trump

245. “There’s always luck involved in things, luck is involved in life; you’re born a certain way, you’re born in a certain location, you’re born – country, there’s always luck. And some people disagree that there’s no such thing as luck, well, I’ll take them on anytime you want.”

— Donald Trump

246. “As you sit there and as I sit here, they are going in. They’re taking over, and they just walk in and they can do whatever they want. They have essentially already taken it over.”

— Donald Trump

247. “Creative people rarely need to be motivated-they have their own inner drive that refuses to be bored. They refuse to be complacent. They live on the edge, which is precisely what is needed to be successful and remain successful.”

— Donald Trump

248. “All over the world, I do business. I make great deals. I’ve made hundreds of millions of dollars against China. All over the world I make money and I build great things. Who’s going to build a wall like me on the southern border? I built a great company.”

— Donald Trump

249. “Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.”

— Donald Trump

250. “I want, we’re going to repeal and replace Obamacare. Obamacare is a total and complete disaster. It’s going to be gone.”

— Donald Trump