Donald Trump

“Rona Barrett: If you lost your fortune today, what would you do tomorrow?Donald Trump: Maybe I’d run for president. I don’t know.”

“Rona Barrett: How would you like to be remembered?Donald Trump: Well, as somebody that’s contributed something to the United States and to the City of New York, and to the various other places that I’m going, and somebody that’s done a little bit better than other people at what he does.”

“I said, 'I will build you this incredible, gorgeous, gleaming hotel. I will put people to work in the construction trades and save hotel jobs and the Grand Central area will come around.' So the city made the deal.”

“"Give them the old Trump bullshit," he told the architect Der Scutt before a presentation of the Trump Tower design at a press conference in 1980. "Tell them it is going to be a million square feet, sixty-eight stories."”

“It would take an hour-and-a-half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles. I think I know most of it anyway. You're talking about just getting updated on a situation”

“I have featured and will always continue to feature my name prominently in all my enterprises.”

“I look at things for the art sake and the beauty sake and for the deal sake.”

“I'm not big on compromise. I understand compromise. Sometimes compromise is the right answer, but oftentimes compromise is the equivalent of defeat, and I don't like being defeated.”

“Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts. I do not think so.”

“How can our great society tolerate the continued brutalization of its citizens by crazed misfits? Criminals must be told that their CIVIL LIBERTIES END WHEN AN ATTACK ON OUR SAFETY BEGINS!”

“Let our politicians give back our police department's power to keep us safe. Unshackle them from the constant chant of "police brutality" which every petty criminal hurls immediately at an officer who has just risked his or her life to save another's.”

“Of course I hate these people and let's all hate these people because maybe hate is what we need if we're gonna get something done.”

“I think if this country gets any kinder or gentler, it's literally going to cease to exist.”

“"When a man leaves a woman, especially when it was perceived that he has left for a piece of ass—a good one!—there are 50 percent of the population who will love the woman who was left," he told me.”

“Leona Helmsley is a truly evil human being. She treated employees worse than any human being I've ever witnessed and I've dealt with some of the toughest human beings alive.”

“I said to the bankers, "Listen, fellows, if I have a problem, then you have a problem. We have to find a way out or it's going to be a difficult time for both of us."”

“You have to treat 'em [women] like s---”

“I'm gonna be dating her in ten years.”

“I like to hire people that I've seen in action. I often hire people that were on the opposing side of a deal that I respect.”

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

“Very good question. (pause) I don't think it's a sin but I don't think it should be done.”

“When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength.”

“You know, it doesn't really matter what the media writes as long as you've got a young and beautiful piece of ass.”

“Wow! Just think — in a couple of years I'll be dating you.”