“The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work.”

I think the media is among the most dishonest groups of people I`ve ever met.

Stay confident even when something bad happens. It is just a bump in the road. It will pass.

The best thing I know about me, is that I’m rich.

Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.

I’m worth far too much money. I don’t need anybody’s money.

Imagine voting for someone who promises to raise your taxes.

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

Your business, and your brand must first let people know what you care about and that you care about them.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren’t criticized are those who don’t take risks.

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force.

In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

Nothing is easy, but who wants nothing?

I discovered, for the first time but not the last, that politicians don’t care too much what things cost. It’s not their money.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I’m after.

Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

So many people are on television that don’t know me, and they’re like experts on me.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.

The Constitution is a radical document, it is the job of the government to rein in people’s rights.

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

You can’t say you love your country and hate your government.

That the policies – from energy to labor policies, trade policies, government policies relating to debt and deficits are all aligning in such a way that America, far from being one of the places people are running from, is a place people are going to come to and add jobs.

Sarah, there’s a government inside the government, and I don’t control it.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.