In His Own Words

Forget the debates. Forget the pundits. Forget the press. Forget even the other candidates....for a minute. I want you to judge a man based on his words. This is important, because it's his words that reveal his ideas, his character, and more importantly for us as Americans, how this man would govern. The following quotes came straight from the the guy who's leading the pack in the GOP race to the White House, Donald Trump.


The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families.

They won’t refuse, they’re not going to refuse me — believe me. (upon hearing that the military would refuse to take out families because it's illegal)

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters.

Paul Ryan, I don’t know him well, but I’m sure I’m going to get along great with him. And if I don’t, he’s going to have to pay a big price.

I’ll tell you what we’re going to do, right? We get greedy, right? Now we’re going to get greedy for the United States. We’re going to grab and grab and grab. We’re going to bring in so much money and so much everything.

I'd bring back waterboarding, and I'd bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.

I’m very capable of changing to anything I want to change to.

I hear the Rickets family, who own the Chicago Cubs, are secretly spending $'s against me. They better be careful, they have a lot to hide!

I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists, so I don't know. I don't know -- did he endorse me, or what's going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists.
I have to look at the group. I mean, I don't know what group you're talking about. You wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about. I'd have to look. If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong. You may have groups in there that are totally fine -- it would be very unfair. So give me a list of the groups and I'll let you know. (referring to the Ku Klux Klan)

Honestly, I don't know David Duke. I don't believe I've ever met him. I'm pretty sure I didn't meet him. And I just don't know anything about him.

I have black guys counting my money. … I hate it. The only guys I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes all day.

Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.

We’re going to have to do things that we never did before. And some people are going to be upset about it, but I think that now everybody is feeling that security is going to rule. Certain things will be done that we never thought would happen in this country in terms of information and learning about the enemy. And so we’re going to have to do certain things that were frankly unthinkable a year ago. (referring to requiring American Muslims to register with a govt database)

(I'm calling for) total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.

When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.

(Citing an alleged story about Gen. Pershing executing Filipino Muslim fighters in the early 1900's, Trump said): He took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pig's blood and he had his men load his rifles and he lined up the 50 people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the fiftieth person he said 'you go back to your people and you tell them what happened.' And for 25 years there wasn't a problem, okay?

I think eminent domain is wonderful.

I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

I paid millions and millions of dollars in refunds. (referring to Trump University)

Apple ought to give the security for that phone, OK. What I think you ought to do is boycott Apple until such a time as they give that security number. How do you like that? I just thought of it. Boycott Apple.

We’re gonna get Apple to start building their damn computers and things in this country, instead of in other countries.

How stupid are the people of Iowa?

We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.

You’ve got to give him credit. How many young guys — he was like 26 or 25 when his father died — take over these tough generals, and all of a sudden — you know, it’s pretty amazing when you think of it. How does he do that?  Even though it is a culture, and it’s a cultural thing, he goes in, he takes over, he’s the boss. It’s incredible. (referring to North Korea's despotic dictator, Kim Jong-un)

I would get China to make that guy disappear, in one form or another, very quickly.
(Do you mean assassinate him? he was asked.) No, well, you know, I’ve heard of worse things, frankly. This guy’s a bad dude.

It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond. (referring to Vladmir Putin)

Do you know the names of the reporters that he’s killed? Nobody has proved that he’s killed anybody. (referring to claims that Putin has killed many journalists)

He’ll pay. Trust me, he’ll pay. (referring to ex-President of Mexico who said they would never pay for the wall)

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.


This is a small sample of a multitude of quotes from Trump. As we all have seen, he has also personally insulted many of the people he crosses paths with, ranging from women to those in the media, and of course, to other candidates in the race. Aside from the fact that he alone has lowered the standard for any decorum in a presidential race, his words have given us insight into who this man really is. His supporters and those yet to decide, must look objectively at his character and think about whether he should be the one to lead this country.  Do you really trust him? Donald Trump wants to be the most powerful man in the world. Let's think very carefully about with whom we entrust that power.