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Donald Trump
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“I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election, if I win.”
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Recorded in: 20 October 2016, quoted in
“These events give not only the candidates a chance to be with each other in a very social setting; it also allows the candidates the opportunity to meet the other candidate's team — good team. I know Hillary met my campaign manager, and I got the chance to meet the people who are working so hard to get her elected. There they are — the heads of NBC, CNN, CBS, ABC — there's the New York Times, right over there, and the Washington Post. They're working overtime. True. True. Oh, this one’s going to get me in trouble.”
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Recorded in: Al Smith charity dinner speech, 20 October 2016
“Hillary is so corrupt, she got kicked off the Watergate commission.”
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Recorded in: Al Smith charity dinner speech, 20 October 2016
“I'm going to fight for every American in every last part of this nation. We have a president who doesn't fight. He goes out and plays golf all the time.”
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Recorded in: Hardball with Chris Matthews, August 4, 2017 October 23 rally
“She didn't know what to do, well how did you get him, uh well uh... they were sent by Russia! You know they're always using Russia”
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Recorded in: October 25, 2016 rally in Sanford regarding Donna Brazile
“And I have to give the FBI credit, that was so bad, what happened, originally, and it took guts for Director Comey to make the move that he made, in light of the kind of opposition he had, with their trying to protect her from criminal prosecution, you know that. It took a lot of guts, I really disagreed with him, I was not his fan, but I'll tell you what, what he did, he brought back his reputation, he brought it back. He's got to hang tough, because there's a lot of, lotta people, want him to do the wrong thing, what he did was the right thing.”
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Recorded in: At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan shortly after Comey announced the FBI would investigate further emails relating to Hillary Clinton, but before his statement that no incriminating information was found within them (…
“Anderson Cooper: You bragged that you have sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that? Donald Trump: No, I didn't say that at all. I don't think you understood what was — this was locker room talk.”
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“I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do.”
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“...if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your [Hilary Clinton's] situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it, and we're going to have a special prosecutor.”
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“Hillary Clinton: ...it's just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country. Donald Trump: Because you'd be in jail.”
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“Cooper: Please allow her to respond. She didn't talk while you talked. Clinton: Yes, that's true, I didn't. Trump: Because you have nothing to say.”
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“Martha Raddatz: ...you, Secretary Clinton, purportedly say you need both a public and private position on certain issues.... Clinton: As I recall, that was something I said about Abraham Lincoln after having seen the wonderful Steven Spielberg movie ... Trump: Now she's blaming the lie on the late, great Abraham Lincoln. That's one that I haven't... OK, Honest Abe, Honest Abe never lied. That's the good thing. That's the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and you. That's a big, big difference. We're talking about some difference.”
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“I know nothing about Russia. I know — I know about Russia, but I know nothing about the inner workings of Russia.”
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“Cooper: Did you use that $916 million loss to avoid paying personal federal income taxes for years? Trump: Of course I do. Of course I do. And so do all of her donors, or most of her donors. ... I pay tremendous numbers of taxes. I absolutely used it. And so did Warren Buffett and so did George Soros and so did many of the other people that Hillary is getting money from.”
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“...NAFTA, signed by her husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world.”
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“I'm also honored to have the greatest temperament that anybody has.”
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“No dream is too big, no challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach. America will no longer settle for anything less than the best.”
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Recorded in: Victory Speech (9 November 2016)
“I think I'm a sober person. I think the press tries to make you into something a little bit different. In my case, a little bit of a wild man, I'm not, I'm actually not. I'm a very sober person.”
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Recorded in: During an interview on 60 Minutes (11 November 2016)
“I think the popular vote would have been easier in a true sense because you'd go to a few places. I think that's the genius of the Electoral College. I was never a fan of the Electoral College until now.”
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“What we do want to do is we want to bring the country together, because the country is very, very divided, and that's one thing I did see, big league. It's very, very divided, and I'm going to work very hard to bring the country together.”
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“Our country's really in bad, big trouble. We have a lot of trouble. A lot of problems. And one of the big problems, I talk about, divisiveness. I think that a lot of people will appreciate … I'm not doing it for that reason. I'm doing it because it's time to go in a different direction.”
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“Clean air is vitally important. Clean water, crystal clean water is vitally important. Safety is vitally important.”
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“Sometimes I'll say I'm actually an environmentalist and people will smile in some cases and other people that know me understand that's true. Open mind.”
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“As far as the, you know, potential conflict of interests, though, I mean I know that from the standpoint, the law is totally on my side, meaning, the president can't have a conflict of interest. That's been reported very widely. Despite that, I don't want there to be a conflict of interest anyway. And the laws, the president can't. And I understand why the president can't have a conflict of interest now because everything a president does in some ways is like a conflict of interest.”
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“I don't care about my company. ... Because it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters to me is running our country.”
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“It's hard to explain. I don't care about anything having to do with anything having to do with anything other than the country.”
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“In theory I could run my business perfectly, and then run the country perfectly. And there's never been a case like this where somebody's had, like, if you look at other people of wealth, they didn't have this kind of asset and this kind of wealth, frankly. It's just a different thing.”
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“I've known Steve Bannon a long time. If I thought he was a racist, or alt-right, or any of the things that we can, you know, the terms we can use, I wouldn't even think about hiring him. First of all, I'm the one that makes the decision, not Steve Bannon or anybody else.”
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“To me more important is taking care of the people that really have proven to be, to love Donald Trump, as opposed to the political people. And frankly if the political people don't take care of these people, they're not going to win and you're going to end up with maybe a total different kind of government than what you're looking at right now. These people are really angry. They're smart, they're workers, and they're angry. I call them the forgotten men and women. And I use that in speeches, I say they're the forgotten people — they were totally forgotten.”
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“I would love to be able to be the one that made peace with Israel and the Palestinians. I would love that, that would be such a great achievement. Because nobody's been able to do it. ... I've had a lot of, actually, great Israeli businesspeople tell me, you can't do that, it's impossible. I disagree, I think you can make peace. I think people are tired now of being shot, killed. At some point, when do they come? I think we can do that. I have reason to believe I can do that.”
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“The Times is, it's a great, great American jewel. A world jewel.”
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“There is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship, we pledge allegiance to one flag and that flag is the American Flag!”
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Recorded in: Thank You Tour - Cincinnati, Ohio (1 December 2016)
“Funny how that term caught on, isn't it? I tell everyone, I hated it. Somebody said 'drain the swamp' and I said, 'Oh, that is so hokey. That is so terrible.' I said, all right, I'll try it. So like a month ago I said 'drain the swamp' and the place went crazy. And I said 'Whoa, what's this?' Then I said it again. And then I start saying it like I meant it, right? And then I started to love it, and the place loved it. Drain the swamp. It's true. It's true. Drain the swamp.”
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Recorded in: During a rally in Des Moines, Iowa (December 2016)
“We will pursue a new foreign policy that finally learns from the mistakes of the past. We will stop looking to topple regimes and overthrow governments. ... Our goal is stability, not chaos, because we want to rebuild our country. It's time.”
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“People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?”
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Recorded in: Trump: Why Couldn't the Civil War Have Been Avoided? (May 1, 2017)
“Q: Does the buck stop with you over this shutdown? Trump: The buck stops with everybody.”
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Recorded in: January 10, 2019
“I just feel like a young man. I’m so young. I can’t believe it. I’m the youngest person. I am a young, vibrant man. I look at Joe — I don’t know about him. I don’t know. I would never say anyone is too old, but I know they’re all making me look very young, both in terms of age and I think in terms of energy. I think you people know that better than anybody.”
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Recorded in: April 26, 2019
“The Jews always flip.”
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Recorded in: attested to by Michael Wolff 28 May 2019
“Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do.”
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Recorded in: Trump was describing battles in 1775, as quoted in Trump blames 'airports' gaffe on teleprompter
“The kidney has a very special place in the heart.”
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Recorded in: 11 July 2019
“There are a lot of dishonest slimeballs out there. Dishonest scum. Dirty cops, lot of dirty cops … the ones on top, they were absolute scum.”
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“Can we get like Gone with the Wind back, please? Sunset Boulevard, so many great movies.”
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Recorded in: Trump slams Oscar-winning South Korean film 'Parasite', praises 'Gone with the Wind'video posted February 22, 2020
“I know South Korea better than anybody, it's a very tight — do you know how many people are in Seoul? Do you know how big the city of Seoul is? 38 million people. That's bigger than anything we have.”
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“I have not touched my face in a week.”
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“I read a lot. I comprehend extraordinarily well. Probably better than anybody you’ve interviewed in a long time,”
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“I don't know. I really don't know. I don't know. I don't know John Lewis. He chose not to come to my inauguration. He chose -- I don't -- I never met John Lewis actually, I don't believe.”
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“Yeah, I wish her well.”
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“But I wish her well.”
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“I do wish her well.”
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Recorded in: Said about Ghislaine Maxwell, quoted in "Trump doubles down on well-wishes for alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell" Politico (August 4, 2020)
“So showerheads — you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You want to wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out. So what do you do? You just stand there longer or you take a shower longer? Because my hair — I don’t know about you, but it has to be perfect. Perfect.”
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