"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."

"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."

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

""I want five children, like in my own family, because with five, then I will know that one will be guaranteed to turn out like me," Donald told a close friend."

""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."

"She turned out to be the wife of a man who was then the prime minister of a major country. I'd heard stories about this lady, but I never thought much of them until that night. We met at the house of the friend who'd phoned me. After we'd all chatted for a while in the living room, the four of us who already knew each other drifted out to the kitchen, leaving Ben and Madame X in the living room to get better acquainted. Which they did. In fact, when we drifted back in, about ten minutes later, she and Ben were involved in an incredibly torrid scene on the couch. I remember standing there and thinking to myself, "Well, Donald, you're not in Queens anymore.""

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

"You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens."

"You can't con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don't deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on."

"I'm a great believer in asking everyone for an opinion before I make a decision. ... I ask and I ask and I ask, until I begin to get a gut feeling about something. And that's when I make a decision. I have learned much more from conducting my own random surveys than I could ever have learned from the greatest of consulting firms."

"I like thinking big. I always have. To me it's very simple: if you're going to be thinking anyway, you might as well think big. Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage."

"I don't do it for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it. Deals are my art form."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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!"

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

"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."

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

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

"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"

"Some people have an ability to negotiate. It's an art you're basically born with. You either have it or you don't."

"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."

"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."

"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."